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...fourth very great aviation group took form last week . . ." and a footnote to the effect that the other three were Curtiss-Wright, United Aircraft & Transport and the Detroit Aviation Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...potent Avco, all credit as a "very great aviation group" and to a staff writer a reprimand for omitting it. He had plane manufacturing units in mind, of which Avco, principally a transport group, has only two (Fairchild, Kreider-Reisners) whereas Curtiss-Wright has seven, United five, Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...airport near the harbor, Western Electric Co., building a $24,000,000 generating plant. Others are Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., whose Baltimore factory was only recently completed, Bethlehem Steel, which maintains there the world's largest tidewater steel plant, General Electric, and of aviation companies Berliner-Joyce, Curtiss-Caproni, Doyle Aero. Industries such as these, Baltimoreans hope, will transform their City of Monuments into a city of tycoons, will swell Baltimore's population from 850,000 to the more satisfactory 1,000,000. Such transformation and swelling seemed to move a step nearer last week when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chapter in Soap | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...other three: United Aircraft, Curtiss-Wright, Detroit Aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: General Aviation Corp. | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid. They reached Roosevelt Field from Glendale, Calif, in 14 hr. 45 min. 32 sec. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew from Los Angeles to Curtiss Airport five miles short of his goal. Roosevelt Field, in 15 hr. 37 min., almost an hour slower than the Lindberghs. He had alighted twice in between (the Lindberghs only once), and he was out of fuel at the end. His excuse: "I met miserable flying weather most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lindbergh Unrivalled | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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