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...Frankensteen was a founder and vice president of the vast United Automobile Workers, C.I.O. He had bled at the hands of Ford "service men" at the famed Battle of the Underpass in 1937. He also seemed to have some political sex appeal: he was a college man (University of Dayton '32), a ready speaker, young (38) and did not mind admitting that he wrote operettas, collected dolls as a hobby. If U.S. labor was to produce, not merely influence poli. ticians. perhaps Frankensteen would lead...
Eighteen years to the day after he had raised the flag at the dedication of Wright Field at Dayton, 74-year-old Orville Wright returned to the scene for a preview of the Army Air Forces Fair. Great changes had been wrought...
...limited in scope and usefulness because they have no built-in source of power, are propelled only by the speed of the plane which launches them and by gravity. The rocket-propelled bomb for the push-button war was not yet ready for unveiling. There was nothing at Dayton as futuristic, even, as last year's German...
Modern Times. In Dayton, business-college authorities decided to junk the tried-&-true practice sentence, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back," substitute "A quick movement of the enemy would jeopardize sixteen gun boats...
...feel like I'm 100 years old," said 33-year-old Byron Nelson. He limped into Dayton's Moraine Country Club, bowed down by a lame back and too much golf. Then, with a sigh, he pulled himself together and hobbled 36 holes in 6 under par to tie for medal honors in the Professional Golfers' Association Championship. That still left a long row of match play to hoe, and Nelson was feeling no spryer...