Word: critchfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whose exploits, besides flying U. S. mail in a bathing suit (see cut, p. 74), have included twice hopping the Atlantic (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936). Suddenly a thudding shiver ran through the plane as a wingtip sliced a treetop. Recalled Passenger W. T. Critchfield: "It sounded at first like a heavy truck running on gravel very fast. I looked at Saggio [a passenger across the aisle] and saw him still strapped in and then suddenly he was flying through...
...this point Mr. Critchfield's observations halted because he was knocked out. When he revived, the Douglas transport was wedged between two trees, minus its wings and considerably messed up. But only Pilot Merrill was badly hurt, with a broken jaw, a broken ankle. Overconfident, as he readily admitted, he had been led astray by bad weather-reporting and rain static on the radio, had come down through the overcast thinking he was at Newark, had found a hillside instead. By extraordinary luck and skill he managed to make a forced landing...
Adolph Oettinger Goodwin, 42, Baptist, is a onetime newsman (Raleigh, N. C. Times), onetime adman (Critchfield & Co., William H. Rankin Co., MacManus, Inc.). With $250,000 capital he formed Goodwin Corp. His scheme is to build up a consumer market hy getting church people to sell products on commission. The church-going salesladies get 2% "remuneration"' which they "may" turn over to their church-a technicality to sidestep restraint-of-trade statistics. Wrappers or sales slips establish proof of sale. The manufacturer whose product is thus sold agrees to spend at least 3% of the additional volume of sales...