Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holdover Chief. Every year since he became Chief of Staff in 1930, General Douglas MacArthur had vainly pleaded for funds to build the military establishment up to what he considered minimum requirements. Just as success seemed about to come to him, his four-year tour of duty, fixed by law...
Around Douglas Aircraft Co.'s busy, super-efficient factory at Santa Monica, Calif. have lately been eddying exciting rumors. Whispers were heard of a monster armored air cruiser being built in holy secrecy to make the U. S. top-dog of the Pacific (see col. 2). Fortnight ago part...
Still a closely guarded mystery last week, this much had leaked out about XP3D-1. It was ordered by the Navy, took a year to build, is considered by Douglas its major engineering achievement. So big that a pit had to be dug in the factory to accommodate its hull...
Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce was not one to sit back and watch Pan American's big show go on without doing anything. Last year the onetime West Point footballer was charged by Congress with providing safety for U. S. airways not only within...
Assisting Marsters on the floor committee are Charles Andrews, William L. Batt, William H. Bowen, Harold Van B. Cleveland, Edwin F. Davis, John W. Erhard, Douglas Erickson, Glenn O. Hay, F. Mouroe Ludden, George V. L. Meyer, Robert P. Sorlien, Russell J. Stern, Arthur Schuh, and Edward F. Whitney.