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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thick and fast flew the questions at New London. Was Commissioner Wickersham demanding that all States give more material assistance to the U. S. on enforcement? Or did he hint at local option, with each State free to deal with Prohibition as local sentiment dictated? The words "modify" and "reasonably enforcible" caused Dry Governors to bristle with hostility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Conference No. 21 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...United the deal looked wise. It lines up one of the best planes in the world with other United subsidiaries-Boeing, Vought, Hamilton Metalplane, Pratt & Whitney motors, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, Stout Airlines.* Whether Curtiss Flying Service, a subsidiary of United's competitor Curtiss-Wright Corp., will continue to sell Sikorsky planes was last week unannounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Sikorsky to United | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Inventor Igor I. Sikorsky was in Europe, last week when the deal was announced. If any one had told him six years ago when, a Russian immigrant, he founded his U. S. company, that in 1929 it would bring $2,500,000, he would have believed it. He has never lacked self-confidence. In Tsarist days he was his country's foremost aeronautical engineer. He designed the world's first successful multimotored plane (a four-motor job, 1913), flew the first multimotored seaplane (his own design, 1914), enabled the Russians to make the first heavy air bombardments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Sikorsky to United | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Founding a Sikorsky company in the U. S. was to him a matter of course and selfesteem. He wants no anonymity of accomplishment. But he does not like business details. He is primarily an engineer. Many a Sikorsky order, many a deal, has been delayed by Inventor Sikorsky's futile enthusiasm for improvement, remodeling. He is almost the last of the big independent designers to succumb to the industry's merger movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Sikorsky to United | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Pius XI created only one new Cardinal, postponed other elevations until December, made only brief remarks. "Certain events have taken place with which we shall deal later on in the year," he said, evidently referring to friction between the Papal State and Fascist Italy since the signing of their Concordat (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One Red Hat | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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