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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PARIS--Nearly 6,000,000 war veterans who claim to control more than half of France's voting strength tonight swung behind leftist leader Henri Pinchet's demand for a "national salvation" government which would rule until 1940 with virtually dictatorial powers
...engine power, propeller thrust and wing lift; the consequent higher stalling speed; the atmospheric didos to be expected; the effect of heat on pilot reactions. But Air Facts' main theme is the folly of "slow-low" flying: "When the time comes . . . to nose down to secure proper control of an aircraft at low altitude, there are only two kinds of pilots: 1) the quick, 2) the dead." Says Publisher Collins: "No sane man can read Air Facts and then stunt at 500 feet...
...first U.S. automobile race (Chicago, 1895) and led the parade for several years with Barnum's circus, never burned up the roads in a business way. Duryea was for simplification, economy. One model had only three wheels, another had all the functions of steering, braking, gear shifting, spark control and acceleration combined in a single lever. His competitors went out for speed and class, an abundance of gadgets. By 1914 Duryea had quit competing...
...wanted to merge his Kansas City Southern Ry. with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads. ICC said No. A few years later the Van Sweringens wanted to merge it with their sprawling Missouri Pacific. Hard times quashed that idea. In 1931 Chicago Great Western got control of K.C.S. But litigation, instituted by Railroader Loree, kept the pair apart. Last week, Kansas City Southern once more was on the verge of matrimony-this time proposed by its Board Chairman Harvey Crowley Couch...
...Arkansas's wealthiest private citizen, and the Southwest's No. 1 private utilitarian (Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies). In 1926 he bought Louisiana and Arkansas Ry. for $10,000,000, In February 1937, for a rumored $2,250,000 he picked up working control of K.C.S. from Paine, Webber & Co., which got control after a bitter fight with Leonor Loree. Since then Wall Street has been expecting a merger and last week Harvey Couch produced it. He announced that K.C.S. would issue 210,000 shares of common stock to exchange for stock...