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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Fahnestock, 78, senior member of the New York Stock Exchange. head of Wall Street's Fahnestock & Co.; of heart disease; at Katonah, N. Y...
...planes from Germany, others built them at home. Groups pooled their resources, formed more clubs, mainly because there were not enough ships to go around. Not 1,000,000 pilots but a bare 70, cream of the total U. S. crop of some 2,500, were at Elmira, N. Y. last week for the seventh annual meet of the Soaring Society of America...
...ships were launched, helped each other tinker their craft, chattered over picnic fires. Major topic of three-dimensional sailing enthusiasts, like that of yachtsmen, is the weather. Because the weather at Elmira for the last three years has been disappointing, pilots discussed moving their annual meet to Ellenville, N. Y., in the Catskills. After one painfully calm day, when the meet started last fortnight, a warm summer wind began to pour across the green Chemung ridges. Results...
...highest. Two years ago Pilot du Pont missed the $3,000 prize by five miles. Last week, in his new German sail plane, he set a world's record for distance and return to point of de parture, with a 37-mi. round trip to Watkins Glen, N. Y...
Died. Charles Rohlfs, 83, originator of ''Mission style" furniture, husband and onetime collaborator of the late, famed Mystery Writer Anna Katharine Green (The Leavenworth Case); after a long illness; in Buffalo, N. Y...