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Provost Buck announced today the lecturers' appointments of John H. Curtiss, director of the Institute of Numerical Analysis of the National Bureau of Standards, and of Andre Guinier, professor at the Sorbonne...
...last 16 of which will have Curtiss-Wright compound engines, giving...
...pilot began feeling his way down through the haze, the plane caught one wing tip on the crest of a slope, and plunged into a hillside in suburban Whittier Heights. The crew of three and all 26 passengers aboard were killed. The plane was a war-surplus C46 Curtiss Commando, operated by a nonscheduled carrier-the fourth non-sked C46 to crash in four months...
...raining heavily as the C46 Curtiss Commando snored down through the morning overcast over Long Island and headed for New York's big Idlewild International Airport. The plane, a cargo transport, had left Fort Lauderdale, Fla. seven hours before with 13,700 Ibs. of cut flowers, fresh vegetables and lingerie. It had made a routine flight, with fuel stops at Charleston, S.C. and Raleigh, N.C., and despite the murk it seemed about to make an equally routine landing-the ceiling hung at 500 feet and visibility was a mile and a half...
...Glenn L. Martin Co., which had a new president just three years ago, last week got another one. Out went Chester Charles Pearson, 45, the aircraft production man (formerly with Curtiss-Wright and Douglas) who was hired in 1949 to solve the debt-ridden company's problems. In came George Maverick Bunker, 44, an engineer with no aircraft experience but plenty of promotional know...