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...Airplanes, parts and motors from planemakers: United Aircraft, $70,000,000; Curtiss-Wright, $60,000,000; Douglas Aircraft, $30,000,000; Lockheed, $6,000,000; Republic Aviation, $4,000,000. Big buyers: France and Britain. Little buyers: Sweden ($4,000,000), Iraq...
Even better are the Curtiss fighters bought and proved by France, for many more of which both Britain and France were ready to bid last week (see p. 16). A story in London's Sunday Pictorial last month was certainly calculated to put into the R. A. F. any heart it may not have derived from its proved ability to handle the Germans to date. This story told of "mass executions of some of Germany's best pilots" following their refusal to fly for fear their planes had been sabotaged or because there were not enough Messerschmitts fighters...
...Arthur Curtiss James was 40 and he had just received $25,000,000 by his father's will. Instead of diversifying his investment as he was advised, he began to concentrate in railroad securities. By 1926 he had a beard like a buffalo, owned the world's largest square-rigged yacht (the 675-ton Aloha), was Board Chairman of the big Western Pacific, controlled 40,000 miles of railroad trackage-a full seventh of the U. S. total-most of it in the Northwest, stamping ground of the late great Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill, whom...
...last week Arthur Curtiss James, now 72, had turned another corner. The biggest railroad owner announced that he no longer felt able to handle the duties of Western Pacific's Board Chairmanship, that at year's end he would vacate...
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 3 (WUPS)--"You can always Stella Harvard man, but you can't Curtiss feelings," said the Sage's friend, You Foo Too, "I've been Mullin it over and I say the soldiers will...