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Balloons. Seven vast balloons surged at moorings in Curtiss-Wright-Reynolds Field. Seven brace of aeronauts prepared to mount them for a tussle with the winds. A gust ripped the German entry of Fritz von Opel & Erich Deku. The other six rose fulsomely to strive for the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race trophy...
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...
...CURTISS Chairman...
...Japanese holocaust at Shanghai (TIME. Feb. 1, 1932 et seq.) several million dollars worth of damage was done by Japanese bombing planes. If and when they ever return, China hopes to be ready with a hot reception. Lately 75,000 slant-eyed Shanghai patriots cheered a zipping U. S. Curtiss Hawk combat plane just right for shooting down bombers. While they gasped and squealed, the 700-h.p. ship tore around Shanghai at 200 m.p.h., dived at 350 m.p.h. to annihilate an imaginary bomber and flattened out with a roar like 47 Chinese dragons just above the head of Mayor...
...biggest order this year!" grinned Curtiss Vice President T. P. Wright. ''The Hawks we are sending to China will be single seaters having the same type of nine-cylinder engine being used by Col. Lindbergh on his present flight. . . . We sold 24 Hawks to the Turkish Government last fall and several are in service in South America...