Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth very great aviation group took form last week . . ." and a footnote to the effect that the other three were Curtiss-Wright, United Aircraft & Transport and the Detroit Aviation Corporation...
...indefinite midnight farewell, it left in its airy wake the assurances of Dr. Hugo Eckener that regular trans-Atlantic service, by Zeppe lins as big as the Graf, will be a reality in September 1931. During his visit Dr. Eckener conferred with officials of Na tional City Bank, United Aircraft & Trans port Co., Union Carbide Co., Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., all associated in the new International Zeppelin Transport Corp. With a showman's flair for secrecy, he would reveal only that the U. S. terminal would be "somewhere between Washington and Baltimore." Newsmen soon discovered that his representatives had been scrutinizing...
...other three: United Aircraft, Curtiss-Wright, Detroit Aircraft...
...came plowing past. From the light-cruiser division (eight strong, four abreast, led by the Detroit), then from the destroyer divisions (26 strong, four abreast, led by the cruiser Concord), then from the dreadnaughts (eleven strong, in three columns, led by the Texas),* finally from the 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the presidential salute of 21 guns per ship plus the "Star-Spangled Banner" by each ship's band, came muffled from a mile away downwind. Alert at first, then seemingly lost in thought, the central figure stood with his fedora hat on during most...
...fourth very great aviation group* took form last week when Fokker Aircraft Corp. changed its name to General Aviation Corp. and increased its capital shares from 1,000,000 to 5,000,000. Next step is to buy the Fokker manufacturing units of Fokker Aircraft and the Dornier Co. of America. Purpose of General Aviation is to hold control of air producing and operating concerns. So, because Harris M. Hanshue is president of Western Air Express as well as of General Aviation, Western Air Express' inclusion is in prospect. So too is Bendix Aviation Corp.'s, because General Motors, which...