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...That mast" was designed by and executed under the supervision of Charles P. Burgess, elder brother of the designer of the Enterprise. This elder brother Burgess is also one of the designers of the U. S. Navy's new dirigibles, ZRS 4 ZRS 5-now being built at Akron, Ohio...
Enterprise, costing more than $1,000,000, was designed by W. Starling Burgess, who is also an airplane engineer. With the wealth of the great Vanderbilt syndicate behind him, he worked on theories no one had had a chance to apply before. When he put in an aluminum alloy duralumin metal mast, painted white, sailors called it the "bean blower" and scornfully predicted that it would collapse in the first puff. It is made in two layers held together by 100,000 rivets. It is much lighter and stronger than wood. For firmness, it was stepped in a water-tight...
...Burgess' associates are a more compromising group than are Dr. Morgan's. Last week, London despatches reported how they are dealing with their situation...
...English profession dislikes its situation as much as the U. S. profession dislikes its prospect. In the headquarters of the British Medical Association in Tavistock Square, London, there is a file similar to the A. M. A.'s file. Like Dr. Morgan, President A. H. Burgess of the B. M. A. has excerpts in his offices at Victoria University, Manchester, where he is professor of clinical surgery...
Wrote a colleague of Dr. Burgess to the American Medical Association: "... The scheme outlined has been brought forward because the British Medical Association regards this extension of medical socialism as inevitable and wants to be early in the field, so that the change shall be, as far as possible, on lines acceptable to the medical profession...