Word: airport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three skeleton wireless masts, a group of gabled buildings. From famed Naval Architect Henry J. Gielow came designs of the Armstrong Seadrome, a floating platform intended to be anchored far at sea, first between Manhattan and Bermuda, later perhaps in a chain across the Atlantic. In another scheme an airport was built on trestles over the Manhattan water front. Gorham's craftsmen exhibited a bronze door for the Detroit home of Edsel Ford and a silver tea set valued at $38,000 which was hidden each evening in a safety vault. Ten construction companies joined in presenting a series...
Showman. As President of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce Frederick B. Rentschler was the god above the show. As President of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. he was a big power. As President of United Airport and Transport Co. he was both a much respected and a much puzzled...
Trans-Hemisphere Transport. For two years European nations have been sending flyers to scout airways across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...
Last week the first conclusions of several investigations were made public. In a 70-page report Manager Richard Aldworth of Newark Airport stated (in brief): All engines (Wrights) functioned normally on previous flights and on this takeoff. One engine failed shortly after the takeoff. Another may have failed later. The pilot was convinced that his plane was overloaded, ? He was not sufficiently familiar with the area in the immediate vicinity of the neighborhood. He paid insufficient attention to the direction and velocity of the wind. From the first period after the engine failure, he probably had decided...
...moment his company is at work on a $41,000,000 railroad through the Andes mountains for the Bolivian Government. He also has signed an agreement to make the largest airport in the world on the Jersey meadows opposite New York. He has always been interested in sports but was drawn into the fight game by Rickard, who picked him as the man to build the new Madison Square Garden when the old one had to be abandoned. He is a millionaire. If he can promote fights the way the late Rickard could, he will be a millionaire again...