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...fastest-rising stocks on the American Exchange has been Bellanca Corp., onetime planemaker. From a low of 4⅜ in 1954 it soared to a peak of 30½ before it eased off to 20 a few weeks ago. Much of the rise came after Sydney Albert, 49, of Akron, a promoter and juggler of corporations, got control of Bellanca 16 months ago. By outright purchase or trades for Bellanca stock, he gathered in dozens of small companies, paid out enough stock dividends to keep Bellanca stock going up and its holders happy. Few seemed worried that Bellanca lost...
...their own, set a new endurance record, staying aloft 51 hrs. 11 min. 25 sec. Lindbergh frets, but death, accidents and delay soon begin to scratch the other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word from the weatherman. On May loth, two days after Frenchmen Nungesser and Coli take off from Paris, Lindbergh hops from San Diego to St. Louis in the record time...
...salesman tells him. When Lindbergh mentions a one-engine job, the salesman's voice turns chill: "Mr. Fokker wouldn't consider selling a single-engine plane for a flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Lindbergh finds a plane and price he likes in a Wright-Bellanca, but the company insists on naming the crew. Obscure mail pilots need not apply...
...does well to copy. So thought Dr. Lytle S. Adams of San Diego, who likes to think up new jobs for airplanes. This month, backed by U.S. Government funds, he is flying back & forth across the denuded pasture lands of the Papago Indian Reservation in Arizona. From his Bellanca Pacemaker drops a stream of pellets...
...minute, quietly hired aeronautical experts and engineers. Last week he came up with a spotty-looking aviation staff: Colonel John Hamilton Jouett, ex-World War I pilot, ex-president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, who will supervise Higgins' new aviation division; Inventor-Manufacturer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca; Aerodynamics Professor-Engineer Dr. Max M. Munk; Curtiss-Wright Designer-Engineer Alfred Victor Verville; three other expert airmen...