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...products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During the War it had large Government contracts for Army belts. A few months ago the company sold its business in suspenders, garters and other elastic webbings. The receivership for closely-held, 98-year-old Russell Manufacturing...
...present at Langley Field last week was NACA's most violent critic, Publisher Frank A. Tichenor of Aero Digest. In his March issue Publisher Tichenor reopened his recurrent bombardment of the committee, charging that it fails in its stated purpose "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight"; that the committee is not creative, merely a measuring agency of work originated by others; that its $1,488,000 Government appropriation could be saved by merger of the laboratories with those of the Bureau of Standards, the Army Research Department at Wikht Field, or the Naval...
Seated in the Hall of the Caesars on Rome's Capitoline Hill last week were some 50 pilots and navigators who have flown across oceans. They had been convened as the first International Congress of Transoceanic Fliers by the Italian Aero...
...Advanced students may take up aero-photography and aero-survey under the famous Captain A. W. Stevens, learning the technique of this new auxiliary of exploration and surveying. Another advanced course is called "Research in Mathematical Geography and Geographical Exploration," and is for those qualified to undertake original investigations in the field or laboratory...
...spring of 1914, I landed a Sloane-Deperdussin monoplane, 50 h.p. Gnome motor (some power fer them days, by gravy!) in the sheep meadow at 66th Street. Was arrested for something-possibly, publicity for the cop who arrested me- and discharged by Magistrate MacQuade next morning. The Aero Club of America suspended my license for six months. If I remember correctly, George Beatty landed a Model B Wright on this same field at least two years before I did, and the late Blair Thaw turned the trick along about 1915 with a private plane built for him by Harold Kantner...