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...cross-country travels raised Chateaubriand from a law professorship at Recife to the most comprehensive press lordship south of San Simeon. He owns 28 newspapers, 16 radio stations, five magazines and a press service. The most spectacular of his promotions, a campaign for Brazil's amateur Aero Clubs, paid off when Aero Clubs' Sunday fliers started pouring into the war-activated Brazilian Air Force...
...future ... is disconcerting." Cheap to Operate? The Civil Aero nautics Administration joined in the de bunking. In its latest survey on civil aviation it said: more than half of the plane owners who gave up their planes did so because of the high operating costs. A light plane such as the Taylorcraft would probably cost from $920 to $1,610 a year...
Rules for Peace. Tom Hardin, who earned his wings in the 101st Aero Squadron in 1917, started out as a barnstormer...
...discussion in the nation's clubs and classrooms. (In three months more than 1,700 schools subscribed for a year of these films.) And one of its regular releases was shown in war plants all over the country to build the morale of industrial workers. (Said the Aero Products Division of General Motors after showing this film : "Absenteeism took a sharp decline sharp decline - and has never gone back to the old figures.") In its early days MOT touched on as many as six topics in a single film: Vol. I, No. i ranged from a speakeasy in Manhattan...
Died. Vincent ("Ben") Bendix, 62, massive, restless, auto-aero parts manufacturer, inventor of the first practical self-starter (1912), founder of Bendix Aviation Corp., president of Bendix Helicopter, Inc. (planning postwar mass production of four-passenger helicopter sedans); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. Despite the vast success of his companies, personal reverses (real-estate projects, a whopping divorce settlement) sent him into bankruptcy...