Word: martin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleveland Air Industry. A queer phenomenon is that Cleveland, vast industrial community, has only one airplane factory-Great Lakes Aircraft Corp. In existence less than a year, it occupies the Glenn L. Martin Co. bomber plant, which that concern abandoned for new facilities at Baltimore. Great Lakes Aircraft president is Benjamin Frederick Castle, 45, onetime Army flyer who went into banking. His chief designer is Holden Chester Richardson, 50, onetime Navy aircraft engineer. They are producing airworthy sport, training, amphibian and cabin planes in small numbers...
...Selina Martin, 21, was a tall, angular blonde. She worked for Julies Freres, Couturiers-the brothers Raphael and Paul. Raphael, a dress designer himself, appreciated her original work, therefore advanced her salary after her mother's death left her living alone. Then one day he noticed something in her work on a dress in three shades of red-"I mean the clever child is growing up-she has ideas that are not all dreams. She is getting down to earth. I wonder...
...pleased with himself because it gave him high rank in a high-ranking tennis family. His mother was one of the four court-famed Sutton sisters. His uncle Thomas C: Bundy, who married May Sutton, onetime champion, was twice national doubles champion with Maurice ("Comet"; McLoughlin Lean-faced George Martin Lott Jr. of Chicago was especially pleased with himself because he felt he had somewhat vindicated his crucial defeat in the Davis Cup singles at Paris in July...
...Martin O'Leary, Ernest Ross, David Miller, Fred Fisher, wanted for the murder of Policeman Ray Martin, a decoy in the Louis Blumenthal kidnaping and extortion plot...
Winnie Winkle the Bread Winner, syndicated comic-strip heroine by Cartoonist Martin Branner, has been on a camping trip. One day, last fortnight, a snake appeared in camp. Her companion yelled: "Don't let that snake get away. One of you pick up a stick or a stone and kill it!" Near the snake was a stick. The last picture showed Winnie waving the snake wildly above her head, the companion screaming: "EEEEEEK! She picked up the SNAKE to hit the STICK with...