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Died. Mazel M. Merrill, manager of the Curtiss Flying Field, Garden City, N. Y., and Edwin M. Ronnes manager of the Buffalo, N. Y., airport; in an airplane crash near Milford...
...spring, the T. A. T. will put into operation a daily air-rail service between New York and Los Angeles. The founders of the T. A. T. are Clement Melville Keys, president of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc.; Charles Lanier Lawrance, president of Wright Aeronautical Corp.; Gen. William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania Railroad; William Benson Mayo, chief engineer of Ford Motor Co.; and other air-minded potentates (TIME...
...Arthur Curtiss James, Manhattan Republican, potent financier ("largest U. S. rail stock holder"). Reason: Prohibition. He telegraphed: "Hearty congratulations on your great acceptance speech . . . my hearty support." He explained: "I do not believe that Mr. Smith's election will settle the [Prohibition] question, but at least it will give me a chance to stand up and be counted...
Rails. Southern Pacific announced, last week, election of able Hale Holden, now president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. to be Chairman of the Executive Committee of Southern Pacific. Railroader Holden has won bright fame as chief lieutenant of astute Arthur Curtiss James, railroad capitalist and yachtsman. In the shift of Southern Pacific executives, railroaders guessed that Mr. James was weaving an "integration" (merger is forbidden by law) of western roads with a mileage of 38,500. He owns vast amounts of stock in Great Northern; Northern Pacific; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Southern Pacific, Denver & Salt Lake; Western Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande...
They led Julius Shaefer, 10, onto Curtiss flying field, Long Island. They dragged him close to a plane. He tried to resist, digging his heels into the earth. His big brother climbed into the plane's cockpit to show that the monster would not bite. They lifted Julius into the machine. Trembling with mute terror he clung to his mother, who also trembled while they put a stout strap about the boy's waist and fastened it securely to the plane seat. They put double straps about his arms. He tried to scream. He strained at his fastenings...