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...Antonio's tortilla-flat Alamo Field last week, 50 men in coveralls scurried over, under, into, out of and around nine fat-bodied Curtiss Commando planes. They installed refrigeration equipment in some, heaters in others. On the silver sides of all nine, they painted the royal blue insignia of a brand-new air-freight enterprise: Slick Airways...
...idea of the airline was Earl Slick's. He had mixed flying lessons with his wildcatting, had been a wartime pilot in the Air Transport Command. Not long after he became a civilian last December, he heard that nine surplus Army Curtiss Commandos were up for sale. In Washington, he walked into RFC's surplus-plane division one day at i p.m., came out at 1:15 owning the planes. The price...
...ANTHONY CURTISS...
...half-control of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, all the way to Salt Lake City. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco runs the Western Pacific, the small but spunky rival of the Southern Pacific (which owns the other half of D. & R. G. W.); Arthur Curtiss James's onetime road might possibly be had. In the East Young might take over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western to get from Buffalo to Jersey City...
Wright Aeronautical Corp. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. told their 150,000 employes in 16 plants to go home on V-J day and stay there-until the Government comes clean. At the Army ordnance plant operated by the U.S. Cartridge Co. in St. Louis, one official said: "We'll just keep going until the Army tells us to stop...