Word: grummans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test pilots. High on his list was Lee Gehlbach of Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., whom Collins rated "one of the ablest in the field" (TIME, April 1). Few weeks ago able Pilot Gehlbach announced he would take Jimmy Collins' risky place testing a new Navy fighter for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. at Farmingdale...
Settling down to the security of a newspaper career, Pilot Collins brought his wife and children east fortnight ago, installed them in a Long Island apartment, decided to give up test-piloting for good just as soon as he cleaned up his contract with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. to test a new Navy fighter...
...last week he went out to the Grumman factory at Farmingdale, L. I., climbed into the stubby little biplane, put it through a series of terminal velocity tests. Because it was his last testing job, and because it was his son's second birthday, his heart was high. His sister, whom he had not seen in years, was on the ground watching his farewell to test-flying...
Navy. Less hysterical testimony was brought out by the Naval Affairs Committee. President Lawrence Grumman of Grumman Aviation Co., a small independent, said that he had not found that an "air trust" had a monopoly on government contracts, that he had made 18% profit on the planes he built for the Navy last year. But when the Committee heard that 10% of his manufacturing cost went to Aluminum Co. of America and that only from that concern could he get the necessary aluminum, it grew suspicious, "invited" Aluminum Co. representatives to appear...
...portrait of her spouse. After several painters had refused to do a reconstruction painting from photographs, Chicago Painter Paul Trebilcock did the job. In January the portrait was hung in the Joslyn Memorial but Mrs. Joslyn was not satisfied. Last month the Museum's Director Paul Henry Grumman cut out two tiny circles of white paper "and pasted them in George Joslyn's eyes, giving them a piercing look that Mrs. Joslyn liked. Omaha newshawks spotted the "improvement" and the paper highlights were scraped off. Last week Omaha art-lovers saw that George Joslyn had a piercing look...