Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their comforts-a pad for back of the pilot's head and one in front, if he jounces forward. Cabins had wicker or upholstered chairs or seats, ash trays, drinking cups. Large and small transports had washstands, toilets and kitchens. But informality is still essential for most air travel...
...comfortably by the owner pilot); limited commercial planes, which carry usually six passengers (these also come equipped with office furniture for the business executive, his secretary, his pilot); the great transports. Land planes, of course, were most numerous at Detroit. But notable is the number of amphibians, seaplanes and air yachts now on the market-Sikorsky, Fairchild, Keystone, Leoning, Boeing, Aeromarine, Klemm, American Marchetti, Chance Vought, Ireland, Eastman, Fokker, Great Lakes, Hamilton, Paramount, Columbia...
Respect arose from United's prominence in U. S. aircraft, for United is among the four most potent interlocked air organizations, is closely integrated with Manhattan's huge National City Bank of which Frederick Rentschler's elder brother Gordon Sohn Rentschler was elected President a fortnight ago (TIME, April...
What puzzled the Rentschler air mind was: Should the seven United Aircraft subsidiaries be operated as separate concerns, with United the holding company or should the seven be made divisions of a great United Aircraft concern like the General Motors divisions. But whether United Aircraft is a holding company or operating and manufacturing company makes no difference to stockholders...
...Talbot, Clifford Durant, son of Motor-Financier William Crapo Durant, Norman Church, Joseph Schenck, the Agua Caliente Hotel in Mexico just south of the California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs almost the same amount...