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Aviation' At Burbank, 10 speed pilots nosed their ships into the rising sun, bound For Cleveland’s annual air show, 2,042 miles away. Ahead was a handsome prize for the winner of the annual Bendix race. Among the lest to leave was attractive, 29-year-old Jacqueline Cochran, whose Fast Seversky plane had set an east-west record the week before.Eight hours, 10Y2 minutes later, Jacqueline Cochran nosed into Cleveland, winner of aviation’s most coveted award, a $9,000 prize whichJACQUELINE COCHRANFastest from Burbank to Bendix*was boosted $2,500 because a woman won. Ten minutes later she left ( for Bendix, N. J., winning $1,000 } more and setting a new coast-to- 1 coast women’s record of 10 hours, J 7 minutes, 10 seconds. tJacqueline Cochran did not need * the $12,500 she won, for her husband E is Floyd B. Odium, head of the 140- * million-dollar Atlas corporation that c controls several dozen propserous E companies. Orphaned as a child, 1 taking her first job at 11, owning her first beauty shop at 20, Amer- ] ica’s new No. 1 woman flier eventually controlled a chain of such £ shops from Florida to California. In i 1932 she met Odium, who dared her . to fly alone after three weeks' prac-tice. They were married in 1936. (Jacqueline Cochran’s good luck in J the Bendix race was not shared by others. Said Frank Fuller, second- t place winner; “It was the stinking-- t est weather I’ve ever seen.” Said £ Paul Mantz, who followed him: £ “The weqther was awful. And to I cap it all I hit a bird at 14,000 feet t where no bird should be.”Two days, later, Chicago’s Roscoe t Turner averaged 283.419 miles per r hour over 30 laps of Cleveland’s 10 £ mile course, winning the $45,000 3 Thompson trophy race. After flying t an extra lap for luck, Turner land- * ed; jumped out, threw his arms £ around his ship, cried: “Oh, you *sweetheart I” sPeople i
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Johnson County Democrat and Oxford Leader
Oxford, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 15, 1938
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