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...only about 130 pounds, has broad shoulders and a trim waist. He keeps himself in perfect condition, is always mentally and physically alert. Certainly Macready needed all his alertness, coolness and skill in his hazardous exploit of last week. On a recent night flight from Columbus, Macready found his motor dead when passing over Dayton. The usual method of gliding to safety in some field or other was impossible in the pitch dark. With his altimeter reading between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, the pilot guided his plane to the outskirts of the town, to minimize danger to others...
...dealer in South Dakota is not a happy one. Last year, during the period of crude overproduction, prices for gasoline were kept fairly high until Gov. W. H. McMaster intervened. So many of the oppressed farmers of South Dakota own and operate Fords and even more elaborate motor cars that the price of gasoline is of more than academic interest. The Governor saw the chance for a political ten-strike and he took...
Harry Grindell Matthews (TIME, June 2) plunged deeper into an orgy of mysterious dickering with prospective purchasers of his invisible "death ray." Refusing an offer of ?1,000 from the British Air Ministry for a two-weeks option, provided he would test his machine on a government motor instead of on a motorcycle engine in his own laboratory, Matthews melodramatically seized an airplane and hopped off for Paris just as process servers reached the field to serve a writ of injunction on him from Edgar Grubbins, A. H. Daley, and J. S. P. Sanborne, English capitalists who claim to hold...
...greatest difficulties in the operation of seaplanes is the soaking up of water by the wooden hull of a flying-boat. This means rapid deterioration and the extra weight of the soaked-in water spells less carrying capacity and smaller flying range. The Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. of Keyport, N. J., is doing pioneer work replacing wooden hulls with metal duralumin. To show the Navy what his metal hulls could do, Inglis M. Uppercu, A. P. & M. President-likewise President of the Uppercu Cadillac Corporation of Manhattan, and a keen yachtsman-had one of his ships, the Morro Castle...
Reports from Detroit stated that the Ford Motor Co. is now selling its cars practically at cost, and that the company's profits come from the sale of spare parts, freight charges and byproducts and from interest accruing upon bank balances and derived from securities. This statement, if accurate, goes to show that Ford car prices cannot well be reduced further, at least under present conditions. The future policy of the Company is bound to be influenced by Mr. Ford's reaction to the possibility of paying a perfectly enormous income tax. Heretofore, this has been readily avoided...