Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life to watch the world revolve . . . from a static point," says Hall. In the 1920s he became director of finance to the Persian Government, lived the life of Reilly in a sumptuous villa, explored the wildernesses of Turkestan, Northern India and Iraq. Later he became a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, displayed company planes in Europe, Siam, Turkey and China. In World War II, he became a colonel in the Ninth Air Force, fought at Cassino and Anzio, was shot through the leg in the invasion of Normandy...
...Lustron made a deal with WAA to use part of the Curtiss-Wright plant at Columbus, Ohio. Then it went back to RFC and offered to invest $3.5 million of its own cash, along with another $6 million from private sources. RFC agreed to lend the $12.5 million...
Fledgling P.I.A. was the baby of Clement Melville Keys, 70, who has sired many a line. A onetime classics professor, hockey player, and reporter, Keys got into big-time aviation by winning control of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., built around it a web of manufacturing and financial companies until he was probably the No. 1 U.S. air operator. In 1932, when he retired from aviation because of his health, Keys was a top executive of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., T.W.A North American Aviation, Inc., and a director of some ten other aviation companies...
...Curtiss-Wright as executive assistant to the president went square-jawed Rear Admiral Lawrence B. Richardson, 49, recently Deputy and Assistant Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. Almost 30 years in the Navy, Admiral Richardson qualified to fly all types of naval aircraft in 1925, promptly made their design and manufacture his specialty...
...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...