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...BABB President...
President of Allis-Chalmers is stocky, hooknosed, fussy Max Wellington Babb, who was named last week as a contributor to the isolationist America First Committee. Said he: "I am thoroughly in accord with the principles of the America First Committee." The Committee opposed the Lend-Lease Bill, has opposed the transfer of war supplies to Britain, recently received a pat on the back in a radio broadcast from Berlin. Last week, fast-talking Mr. Christoffel and owlish, wealthy Mr. Babb glared at each other over the thicket of their differences. Thorniest was the issue of the closed shop...
...Granville Brothers' factory (Springfield, Mass.) it was built for Jacqueline Cochran to fly in a London-Melbourne race. Miss Cochran was forced down at Bucharest. Later the Q.E.D. was entered in four important U. S. races, never finished one. Last year Sarabia bought it from Dealer Charles Babb of Los Angeles...
Annually for the past five years Charles Babb has sold between $500,000 and $1,000,000 worth of airplanes and airplane equipment, largely to clients in Alaska, Mexico, Central and South America. His smallest sale was his first, a $700 reconditioned and guaranteed Eaglerock three-seater. His largest: $400,000 worth of assorted ships for export to France in 1936, intended, he guesses, for Loyalist Spain. As sidelines he rents ships to Hollywood cinema studios, runs a skywriting business, operates the Ryan and Stinson agencies for Central and South America...
...Charlie Babb got this idea for a flying freight car from the demands of Latin-American customers serving mines, lumber camps and industries in localities accessible only by air. Most of these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through...