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Associate Professor Charles H. Taylor has succeeded Professor Harold H. Burbank as chairman of the Division of History, Government and Economics. Professor Burbank's resignation last spring was believed to be in protest at the tenure policy of the Administration...
...Only Burbank Resigns In Protest...
With the exception of Professor Burbank's resignation, none of the changes were understood to have been caused by disapproval of the University's method of appointment and dismissal. Succeeding Professor Burbank as Chairman of the Economics department is Professor Chamberlin, who is still in Europe...
...investor aboard walked away with his pocketbook intact. One of Detroit Aircraft's subsidiaries was Lockheed Aircraft, absorbed in 1929. Although its sleek Vegas and Orions were the fastest commercial jobs in the air, Lockheed had to go into receivership. Grass grew around its two-acre plant at Burbank, Calif., and the factory had only one employe-a watchman who had started working for Brothers Alan and Malcolm Loughead (later changed to Lockheed) and saw no reason to quit because he was not paid. That was in 1932. Today, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. is a different story...
...From the Burbank plant soon came Lockheed's first bimotored, all-metal plane, the Electra, a speedy airline job, then the Lockheed 12 and finally the 14, rated in 1937 the fastest multi-engined commercial plane in the world. This year the Lockheed plant turned out the two-engined P-38, one of the world's fastest pursuit ships. Lockheed is now working on a new Electra and the four-engined Excalibur, scheduled for test flight-next summer...