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...airlines. For two years, many "non-skeds" had packed in their passengers like cattle to make their cut-rate fares profitable. Worse still in the same period there had been no less than four crashes, killing 117 people. The latest-and most serious-was six weeks ago when a Curtiss Commando plane operated by Strato-Freight, Inc. plunged into the Atlantic, killing 53 of its 81 occupants (TIME, June 20). After that, the Civil Aeronautics Administration decided to take a harder look at the non-skeds' safety practices...
More Kinks. What had gone wrong? Well, said Gunderson, it had taken Lustron a long time to get all the machinery and steel it needed to produce houses in the huge war-surplus Curtiss-Wright plant in Columbus. Last February, Lustron thought it had ironed out the kinks and announced production of 25 houses a day, predicted a rate of 100 by July...
Shortly after midnight, 76 sweltering Puerto Ricans and five crew members jammed into a reconverted war-surplus Curtiss Commando twin-engined plane at San Juan, P.R. The first passengers aboard grabbed the leatherette bus seats in the middle aisle. The late ones squeezed into bucket seats along the walls. Five infants snuggled in their parents' laps. Pilot Alfred O. Cockrill of Pittsfield, Mass., late of the Naval Air Transport service, took off, headed northwest for Miami, on the way to New York...
Slick, who had already spent $3,000,000 on the airline (mostly from his and brother Tom's oil-inherited wealth), planned to get along at first with his present fleet of 21 Curtiss (C-46) Commandos, in spite of the fact that the schedule boosts his route from the twelve cities he now serves to 54. Slick's route begins in Los Angeles, runs through Texas to Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and on to Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Said he: "We will expand as we find it necessary. We're not going...
Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields moved into full control of huge Curtiss-Wright Corp. Shields, who had helped the corporation with its financing, was invited in by the directors last December to reorganize the management. President William C. Jordan disagreed with Shields's plan to go outside the aeronautical field to get new business; the company had not done too well making non-aeronautical products. Last week both Jordan and Chairman Guy W. Vaughan, who had stepped out of the presidency when Jordan stepped in, left the company. Shields began shopping for a new president...