Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles. Traditionally the National Air Races begin and end with a bang. The biggest event is always the last-the Thompson Trophy Race (in which a 300 m.p.h. landplane record was this year's objective). Next in importance, although spectators see only the finish, is the Transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race which raises the curtain. This year's Bendix race, starting from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., was a battle between the builders who divided highest honors last year-Z. D. Granville and Wedell-Williams. Granville of Springfield, Mass, is famed for his fat Gee Bee in which Jimmy...
...contract to manage the Drake Hotel for $40,000 a year, plus living expenses for them and their families and 10% of all profits in excess of dividends. After $300,000 of back taxes had accumulated, the stockholders, including Architect Benjamin Marshall (of both the Blackstone and Drake), Vincent Bendix and the McCormick estate, put through a voluntary reorganization. Metropolitan Life extended its $4,000,000 mortgage and $180,000 in defaulted interest and loaned the hotel enough to clean up the taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their old contract calling...
...Whirlwind: 290 m. p. h. with a 700-h. p. Cyclone (with floats detached and wheels fully retracted). Wing flaps will slow the ship for landing. Major de Seversky, who lost a leg in the War, proposes to enter his "universal" ship in the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race in the National Air Races in July...
Stretching back beyond the Century of Progress will be a replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters...
...reducing its gold content in accordance with commodity indices. The Vanderlip proposals were signed by: President James Henry Rand Jr. of Remington-Rand Co., Chairman John Henry Hammond of Bangor & Aroostook R. R. Co., President Robert E. Wood and Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears. Roebuck & Co., Vincent Bendix, Samuel S. Fels (naptha), Philip K-Wrigley (gum); Motormaker Howard Earle Coffin, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, President Edward Asbury O'Neil III of American Farm Bureau Federation, Master Louis John Taber of the National Grange, Organ-maker Farny R. Wurlitzer, President William Joseph Me-Aneeny of Hudson Motor...