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Accept Everything America Can Produce: Glenn Curtiss Comes to Buffalo

By Douglas W. DeCroix - October 20, 2015

The onset of the First World War brought Glenn Curtiss’ quest to send an aircraft across the Atlantic to a temporary halt. But it also brought incredible changes to his small-town aeroplane and motor business.

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