Old BABY RUTH CURTISS CANDY Model Airplane Plan Book

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Offered for auction is this neat old vintage 1937 LARGE Soft Bound Promotional Advertising BOOK titled; " THE CURTISS CANDY COMPANY INSTRUCTION COURSE IN BUILDING FLYING MODEL AIRPLANES " - Value 50 cents - This Book Tells You How You May Get 60 Different Model Airplane Construction Kits - CURTISS CANDY CO. , Otto Schnering, President, Chicago . Large Book measures approximately 10" by 16", and 1/8" thick. Also included is an Original 1937 Curtiss BABY RUTH Candy Bar Wrapper !!!, and a single page BABY RUTH advertisement dated 1931 .Book's cover is made of a heavy paper material with a color illustration of various Aircraft Flying Over an Airport, and is marked with the Information supplied above, as well as; Wasp-powered "Mr. Mulligan" Plane, in which Ben Howard won the Bendix Transcontinental Trophy Race. Baby Ruth Candy was the only ration on this 'cross-country flight . The spine is not marked. Contains a total of 28 pages filled with information, illustrations, promotions, advertising, and blue-print airplane plans. CONTENTS includes; WHERE CURTISS QUALITY CANDIES ARE PLANNED AND PRODUCED ; Curtiss Products Are Constantly Laboratory Tested to Assure Uniform Purity, Quality and Goodness - INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CURTISS AMERICA'S FAVORITE CANDY ; Curtiss Candy Company Wrapped One Billion, 332 Million Bars of Pure Delicious Candy in One Year - Wrapping - Roasting - Mixing - Sugar Cane - Milk and Butter - Cane and Beet Sugar - Cooling - Sugar Beets - Chocolate - Corn Syrup - INTRODUCING YOU TO CURTISS CANDY PRODUCTS ; Baby Ruth - Butterfinger - Buy Jiminy - 1/4 Pound Curtiss Milk Nut Roll - Coconut Grove - Moon-Spoon - Chocolate Dipped Better Creams - Butter Toffee - Cough Stops - Taffee Giraffee - After Smokes - 1/4 Pound Chocolate Dipped Caramels - 1/4 Pound Chocolate Dipped Nut Butter Pillows - Chocolate Dipped Mallows - Milk Nut Loaf - Wild Cherry - Butterscotch - Lemon - Orange - Chocolate Drops - Root Beer - Lime - Peppermint - Root Beer - Wintergreen - Grape - Chocolate Clear Crystal Candy - Chocolate Sucker - Caramel Smackers - Wild Cherry Suckers - Baby Ruth Suckers - Banana Caramels - Curtiss Mints - PROMOTED AND SPONSERED INTEREST IN AVIATION ; $2500.00 Baby Ruth Trophy - Jack Livingston, Winner of the Baby Ruth Trophy - Major Dallas Speer in His Waco Biplane - Major Speer handing out Baby Ruth Candy Bars to members of "Our Gang" Comedy Pictures - A Battery of American Air Aces Flying in Squadron Formation - America's Number One Pilot, Bennie Howard - Jack Wright - The Curtiss Air-Division, known as American Air Aces, includes such famous pilots as Johnny Livingston, Art Davis, Harold Neuman, Jack Wright and Roy Hunt - "Butterfinger" Hunt, Internationally Known for His Solo Acrobatics - Parachute Jumper Clem Sohn - Douglas Davis, Winner of the Bendix Cross Continent Trophy Race - A Fleet of Baby Ruth Planes which constituted the first air circus organized in 1925 - ILLUSTRATIONS AND INFORMATION ; Lockheed Sirius - Wiley Post's "Winnie Mae" - Gee Bee Super Sportster - Macchi Castoldi - Frank Hawk's Northrup "Gamma" - Sikorsky Amphibian S-38 - Seversky Amphibian - Curtiss Goshawk - Curtiss "Condor" - Consolidated "Admiral". ALL MATERIAL IN THIS CONSTRUCTION COURSE IN MODEL AVIATION Compiled For Curtiss Candy Company by PAUL JONES, INC. , Mishawaka, Indiana - MODEL AIRPLANE INSTRUCTION COURSE ; For All Model Airplane Builders - Aerodynamics and Design - Construction and Materials - General Questions - PROJECT NO. 1 SAILPLANE - SCIENTIFIC GLIDER - PROJECT NO. 2 POWER GLIDER - (RISE OFF GROUND MONOPLANE) - EVERYBODY EATS BABY RUTH AMERICA'S FAVORITE ; (CENTER ADVERTISEMENT) - PROJECT NO. 3 STABILITY STUDY - (R.O.G. MONOPLANE) - PROJECT NO. 4 FEATHER-WEIGHT FUSELAGE MODEL - HIGH WING MONOPLANE - PROJECT NO. 5 FEATHER-WEIGHT FUSELAGE MODEL - LOW WING CABIN MONOPLANE - PROJECT NO. 6 MONOCOUPE - FLYING SCALE MODEL . FAMOUS PLANES ; You Can Build Models of All These Famous Planes, and Many Others, With the Construction Kits Listed On the Inside Back Cover of This Book - Boeing Army Pursuit P... read more

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