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Last spring many an American Airlines pilot, stopping for passengers at Buffalo, N. Y., sunburned the roof of his mouth watching the test flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps called XP-39. Slim as a lance, it ripped across the field faster than anything they had ever seen, faded to a dot against the sky before the thunder of its exhaust had echoed off the hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail...
...mechanic for Early-Bird Glenn L. Martin (whose firm was then listed in the Los Angeles telephone book under "Amusements"). By 1925 he was vice president and general manager of Martin, by 1929 had the same job with Major Reuben Fleet's Consolidated Aircraft Corp. at Buffalo...
When "Rube" Fleet moved his company to San Diego in 1935, Larry Bell leased the old plant, raised $400,000 by stock sales in Buffalo and became president of Bell Aircraft Corp., with Robert J. Woods as his boss designer. While Woods was turning out the two-engined Airacuda, Bell Aircraft was making ends meet by subcontracting for other manufacturers; but by the time the Air Corps had bought 13 Airacudas, Larry Bell could see the Airacobra and a real manufacturing future ahead. Last week on Bell's books were Air Corps orders for 93 Airacobras, and its backlog...
...also consumers and voters-is worth having. To lure General Mills stockholders, Mr. Bell issued invitations to regional get-togethers promising to "acquaint them with its affairs." So far he has held five such meetings, in Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Manhattan. Three more will be held soon: Buffalo, Boston, Minneapolis. Meetings were held in mid-afternoon and better than 20% of local stockholders turned up. Biggest number: 425 in Manhattan...
...Lewis has been in this country since the end of summer and has just finished a portrait of the president of Buffalo University. He is considering doing a book of drawings of "American Personalities," similar to one he produced in England, and except for that he has no other works planned, although, he said, "I am always writing, always painting and writing...