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...returned to Manhattan. Last week he announced that Atlas would split, like a cell, into two parts-one to stay with him in the money business, the other to be grafted to the lusty body of U. S. aircraft's Curtiss-Wright Corp...
Wall Street's first reaction was: Odlum has moved again! Its second: Has he turned away from his old hunting grounds (bankrupt utilities, movie companies, stores), moved into the aircraft business -the field in which Wife No. 2 is interested. Friends of the Curtiss-Wright management offered to raise a pool to defend the company against Odlum's raid. Guy Vaughan, president of Curtiss, cooled them off. He told them the smartest thing he had ever done was to get his friend Floyd Odlum on the Curtiss-Wright board...
...YORK--The merger of the $60,000,000 Curtiss Wright Corporation and the Atlas Corporation, largest investment company in the world and valued at $105,000,000 was announced tonight...
Gone are such luminaries as Artie Johns, Lupe Lupien, Dick Grondahl, Slim Curtiss, and Bob Gannett--not to mention Rud Hoye and Joe Soltz, dependable outer gardeners. In addition, an appendectomy has forced right fielder Bill Tully to drop out of school this year. All told, Stahl is left with Captain Tom Healey and Bob Fulton as his only experienced battery, shortstop Fred Keyes, and left fielder Gene Lovett...
...Augsburg in 1927, specializing in speed. On April 26 this year, one of his ships with a 1,660-h.p. Daimler-Benz motor set up an absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly stripped and "souped up" for the test. In combat with U. S.-built Curtiss fighters, which hit a top speed of around 330 m.p.h., Messerschmitts with their long, flat, square-tipped wings have been proved lacking in maneuverability and rate of climb. But Willy Messerschmitt remains an ace name in Naziland. It would be news indeed if he fled his country, as gossip...