Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wakatsuki had to report that, whereas he went to London to win for the duration of the Treaty (it expires Dec. 31, 1935) a total tonnage for Japan in capital ships, cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers and submarines 70% as great as that allotted to the U. S., and whereas the Anglo-Saxons tried to keep him down...
...will be used to pay off the last of a sum lent by F. L. Ames '26, president of the East Coast Aircraft Corporation. In doing this, the Club will still retain a considerable sum in balance gained--over and above the operating expenses...
...tional Distillers Products Corp., American Sumatra Tobacco Corp., American Water Works & Electric Co. Mr. Coburn's special ability has been enlisted before now by the directorates of R. Hoe & Co. (printing presses), Savage Arms Corp., International Gear Co. During the War he ran the Navy's aircraft factory in Philadelphia. After that he was with Bethlehem Ship building Corp. Born in Duluth 55 years ago, he was schooled at Annapolis...
While men great in steel fought with stock proxies in Ohio, men great in air fought with stock proxies in Delaware. At Wilmington, representatives of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. tried and failed to wrest ownership of National Air Transport Inc. from the Curtiss-Keys interests. But where the Ohio battle ended conclusively, the Delaware affair was but a prelude to battle, the result a lull in hostilities but not in hostility...
...directors, dominated by able Clement Melville Keys, Rentschler & his colleagues made an offer to exchange one share of United for three and one-half of NAT stock. This offer was quickly, flatly rejected (TIME, April 14). To the Curtiss-Keys group, active as such in aviation since 1920, United Aircraft seemed a shade Napoleonic.* While denying any desire to command the industry, Curtiss-Keys, with 13 companies, backed by Banc-america Blair Corp., was recognized as the No. I group of U. S. aviation; United Aircraft as the contender...