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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stockholm police arrested Brother Torsten Kreuger last month when the receivers for Kreuger & Toll sued him for more than $1,000,000 in cash and securities which he was alleged to have received from Scoundrel Ivar some six months before the crash. It was Brother Torsten who flew to Paris and secured custody of Brother Ivar's body without an autopsy being performed. At that time Brother Torsten had the diplomatic rank of a Swedish consul general, lived far more lavishly in Stockholm than Brother Ivar whom Swedes called "The Man Who Never Gambles...
Following the War, during which he flew with the famed 96th French Pursuit Squadron and directed training at Issoudun, "Casey" became test pilot for Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. As head (and founder) of Curtiss Exhibitions Co. he flew in practically all available races from 1919 to 1926, cleaned up so much prize money with his clipped-wing Oriole that for a time his department alone showed profits in the struggling Curtiss organization. Oldsters recall one race, at Dayton in 1924, which "Casey" failed to win. As usual he loaded as little fuel as necessary into his ship. This time...
...weigh 125 lb., and to develop 90 h.p., 180 m.p.h. Pilot Naseef said he had taken the air 48 sec. after starting the motor, after it had stood idle for five hours. Pilot Naseef won local fame when he landed his light plane in front of a hospital, flew home with his wife and 13-day-old daughter...
...them!" he snapped. Promptly brickbats, bottles and paving stones flew. "Charge, men!" he ordered, and for the third time that day North Shields' police put on a smacking, effective truncheon charge...
...Rome he took a plane for Tirana. Albania, then flew on to Salonika. There he changed to train for Athens. Mr. Insull hurried to the Grande Bretagne Hotel. In Greece, his lawyers had told him, he would be safe from extradition...