Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important issues affected were shares in the new United Aircraft units and Armour & Co.'s proposed preferred and common. After the first day of confusion it was apparent that the United units would be required to file registration statements, since they were new companies (TIME, June 4). Armour, which intended merely to exchange new issues for old, was evidently exempt. On this assumption the Chicago Stock Exchange gingerly resumed trading in Armour but the Manhattan exchanges took no chances. They felt that while Mr. Bane had told them what not to do, he had in no sense said...
...Northrop Gamma transport mail plane which TWA's Vice President Jack Frye piloted from coast to coast three weeks ago in 11 hr., 31 min. (227 m.p.h.). Also to Langley Field went some 200 other leaders of U. S. aviation, including Orville Wright, for the ninth annual aircraft engineering research conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Run off with precise showmanship by affable, grey-haired Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, committee chairman and president of Johns Hopkins University, the conference developed from a year's research these facts & fancies...
Because Postmaster General Farley decreed that no airline holding a mail contract may have a manufacturing affiliate, United Aircraft & Transport Corp., most potent ($30,000,000) U. S. aviation holding company, last week announced plans to split three ways. To take over the assets & liabilities of its various operating and manufacturing subsidiaries three new, independent corporations will be formed -one transport company, one eastern equipment company, one western equipment company. This reorganization was pledged by United when it bid for mail contracts last month. In that scramble it was the most successful competing company, recapturing...
...thesis on propellers), Frank Caldwell put his education to practical use by becoming chief of the propeller division of Curtiss Airplane Co., then Chief of the U. S. Army Propeller Service for ten years. Since 1928 he has been associated with Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. Started in 1911 by the late Robert Joseph Collier, son of the founder of Collier's Weekly, the Collier Trophy was awarded the first year to Glenn H. Curtiss, the second year to Orville Wright. Since then it has been won, among others...
...Government Notes-Private Ire From Washington"- Boettcher-Newton & Co., "52 Back-to-the-Wall St." "Dillinger, Read & Co." "Metal Specialists-Ingot We Trust"- Harris & Vose. "All we know is what we read in the papers. ... If you don't believe it, send for a copy of our United Aircraft letter to Senators"-J. P. Morgan & Co. "WTe take pleasure in announcing that we have completed arrangements with Adrian H. Muller & Son [securities auc-tioneers] to handle the markets on all of our underwritings"-Kuhn, Loeb...