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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week practically all of Russia's high air command was wiped out in a single crash near Podolsk 20 mi. south of Moscow. Where they were going, whence they came, what caused the crash, remained a Kremlin secret. But next day in the City Hall in downtown Moscow the bodies lay in state: Peter Baranov, Vice Commissar for Heavy Industries in charge of Aviation; Abram Goltsman, Chief of Civil Aviation; his assistant, A. Petrov; Valentine Zarzar, former Vice Chief of Civil Aviation and now Chief of the Aviation Section of the State Planning Commission; O. Gobonov, director...
...Absolutely liable for injury to persons or property on the land or water beneath" is the plane owner, by statutes in most of the 48 States. The pilot is liable only for the result of his own negligence. But since a crashed plane destroys most clues to negligence, pilots are rarely charged. If the Department of Commerce's post-crash investigation shows that the pilot abandoned his plane unnecessarily, or too hastily, his license may be revoked. But in general aviation etiquet leaves the problem of whether to jump or not to jump entirely to the pilot...
Three years ago C. William Glose, 32, vice president of Philadelphia's Airport Development & Construction Co., was killed in an airplane crash near Tampa. His wife and three children sued Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc. for $200.000. A Newark District Court jury awarded her $56,000; the judge cut it to $40.000. Curtiss-Wright appealed on the grounds that: i) Mr. Glose had automatically limited damages to $10,000 by accepting the printed form ticket; 2) as the plane's sole passenger he had "chartered" it; and 3) there had been no negligence on the part of Pilot...
...annual investment business and controlled $600,000,000 of financial and industrial enterprises, but has lost it all; if he is still under 45 and if he stays out of jail-the chances are that he will make a comeback. Rogers Clark Caldwell, whose crash three years ago reverberated from Georgia to Arkansas, was sentenced to jail but high Tennessee courts reversed the conviction. The ambitious, youngish banker-promoter promptly started afresh at his old Nashville stand with $1,000 capital and the old Caldwell slogan, "We bank on the South" (TIME, Sept...
...several years ago. Last week Mr. Caldwell was not far behind. For approximately $3,750,000 he agreed to buy 40,000,000 lb. of dark-fired tobacco from two big cooperatives, giving him a practical corner on the dark-fired market.* As was often the case before his crash, Mr. Caldwell's deal had a political twist. He will assume the obligations of dark-fired growers to the R. F. C. for crop advances, is also seeking (and will probably get) R. F. C. assistance in financing the deal. Bitterly opposed is Universal Tobacco Co., a syndicate which...