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Among the 30 passengers who escaped unhurt from the flaming crash of a Mid-Continent Airline Convair at Tulsa, Okla. one day last week were Dr. and Mrs. James D. Alway of Aberdeen, S.D., bound for Mexico on a vacation. Dr. Alway had been a pilot in World War I, but it was 49-year-old Mrs. Alway's first airline trip. When newsmen talked to her later, she was mainly worried because her vacation wardrobe, including a new spring coat, had been destroyed in the fire. Of her narrow escape she said simply: "My husband...
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. last week test-flew its new two-motored turboprop transport plane, first in the U.S. The plane, powered by Allison engines geared to propellers, is a modification of Convair's 240, a 40-passenger ship used on commercial lines. Consolidated expects its new plane to be as fast as and more efficient than jet transports for short-and medium-range hops...
...Louis, hired 20 engineers and went scouting for orders. In the first two years he got none, even though he won a $3,000 design-award from the Army and a $9,900 award from the Navy. His first actual order was for $7,672 worth of parts for Convair's Stinson observation planes. The company kept going during World War II by making such varied products as ammo boxes, gun turret parts and tail assemblies...
From Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., G.M. bought a 40-passenger two-engined Convair 240, the same plane now flying many commercial routes. G.M. will equip the plane with two 2,750 h.p. turboprop engines developed by G.M.'s Allison division...
Consolidated was buffeted by labor troubles, had money-losing contracts to deliver Convair-240s, its two-motored commercial airliners. Though Odium expected some loss on the contracts, which had been signed before he took over, he soon found that he had underestimated such losses by . $13 million. All in all, Consolidated piled up losses of $35.7 million in 1947 and $10.3 million last year...