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...features of the new Navy dirigible designed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron and awarded first prize ($50,000) in the Airship Competition Board's contest for the best dirigible design. The Board, headed by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, has recommended that the contract for constructing the ship be also given to the Goodyear company, and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has approved the recommendation. Should the Goodyear company build the ship, it cannot collect the $50,000 for the design, a stipulation of the contest being that if the company submitting the winning design also...
Broken in health and finances, Mr. Bellanca came to the U. S. His relatives helped him secure funds to build a monoplane in Brooklyn. He taught himself to fly, set up an aviation school. During the War, he lost a contract with the British government because he did not have the money to swing it. He designed planes for a Maryland concern until it went bankrupt...
...York City's welcome in her honor was runner-up to the recent Lindbergh carnival. But the vaudeville and cinema contracts in her honor were not as fat as admirers expected. Her lawyer, Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, finally allowed her to accept a contract which required that she perform in a glass tub on vaudeville stages. "The idea of an endurance swimmer showing the public anything in a one-stroke tub suggests a whale doing a marathon in an eye cup," remarked a Chicago Tribune writer...
...came down. First he kissed his 19-year-old bride of six months, who had kept watch on the hotel roof, and hoisted up supplies on a pulley system. Then he prepared to exercise the cramped fingers of his right hand in the pleasant task of signing the vaudeville contract promised as the fruit of his labors...
...false, said: "They always start that report when the team is losing." However, McGraw had praised Hornsby highly on Hornsby Day in St. Louis and he had hinted at retirement "some day." McGraw is 54. It would not be surprising to see him give up baseball when his contract as Manager of the Giants expires in 1929. On that "some day" Coogan's Bluff will lose its nabob, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University (see p. 16) will lose an old neighbor and Manhattan will lose one of its most significant Irishmen...