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approval of the association. This seemed to be a good business proposition. If properly handled it would show a good profit as every day the newspapers carried announcements of the coming events. Everyone believed the public would pay to attend this, the first big aviation meet in America.

Dick Ferris seemed to be the logical man to promote and manage the Dominguez Meet. Just out of school, he became an actor and followed his profession until after the Meet. He was a good story teller. Naturally, any good actor must memorize his lines and Dick was very good at this. He was for some years a producer of Stock with his beautiful wife, Florence Stone as his leading lady.

However, he had something new to contend with in dealing with aviators. On occasion, he seemed to be stunned. He remarked to me, "I have managed a great many actors, temperamental creatures who are never satisfied, kick about their dressing rooms, about their parts, a draft over the stage and kick about one another. These aviators have them faded, they begin where the actors leave off. Never again will I have anything to do with aviators."

Dick was mistaken; he had much to do with aviators later in his career.

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The following facts and figures were written by John H. Gray and published in the Los Angeles Examiner the day following the events. Mr. Gray was aeronautical feature writer covering the Dominguez meet. Figures for January 10, 11, 12, 13 are quite