Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last December he and his group had bought enough Avco stock to remove La Motte T. Cohû from the company's presidency (TIME, Dec. 19). A compromise board of 16 directors, still bankerish, was formed. Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, Hayden, Stone partner and board chairman of Curtiss-Wright, an athletic, motorboat-racing man cut much like Motormaker Cord though more refined, was put in temporarily as president. Mr. Cord & associates continued to buy Avco shares. Bankers Robert Lehman and William Averell Harriman, after their hot and losing proxy fight with Cord last autumn, had no heart to fight longer...
Quiet enough to permit passengers to talk to one another in normal voices and to allow radio music to be heard, the new Condor will be put into service by Eastern Air Transport out of Newark to Miami this week. Eight others are under construction at Curtiss-Wright's St. Louis plant...
...swirling snowstorm Pilot James L. Kinney of the Commerce Department flew a Curtiss Fledgling several miles from the field, pulled a hood over his cockpit, then headed back. As would any airline pilot, he followed the radio beacon toward the airport by watching a needle on a dial and by listening to the blend of dots & dashes in his earphones. Buzzing louder& louder as he neared the field, the dots & dashes suddenly stopped. That, the pilot knew, marked the "blind spot" directly over the beacon itself, hard by the airport...
...gave an out-of-the-ordinary going-away party: a private view before the public exhibition of his collection of Forain paintings, etchings and lithographs. John Pierpont Morgan attended. So did John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Adolph Ochs, Ogden Reid, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Cravath, Arthur Curtiss James, Arthur Brisbane, Lily Pons. There...
...Hall Dr. Wild Sec. B5, B7 Memorial Hall Greek G Dr. Chase, Sec. 2 Sever 31 Greek 8 Sever 29 History 11 Geol. Lect. Rm. History 41 Sever 35 Japanese 3 Widener C Mathematics A V Dr. Currier, Sec. 1 Sever 30 Mr. Adams, Sec. 2 Sever 36 Mr. Curtiss, Sec. 3 Sever 36 Mathematics 22a Sever 29 Music 1c Music Bldg. Physics 21 Pierce 110 Physics 41 Sever 6 Romance Philology 4 Sever 6 Slavic 1a Sever 18 Sociology 1 Emerson 211 Spanish 2 Sever 18 Zoology 3 Mallinckrodi MB9 Zoology 11b Sever 23 Zoology 12 Sever...