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...Future planes weighing 700 tons seem a "conservative" prediction, to H. D. Hoekstra of the Civil Aeronautics Administration.* Use of the metal beryllium he called a "tantalizing dream" because it would reduce the weight of a Douglas DC-3 (now 13 tons) by more than a ton. Glass fabric, bonded by plastics, seems to him an "almost Utopian material" for plane structures and wing covering. But he thinks that aluminum alloys will remain the leader for some time, with competition from stainless steel where corrosion is involved...
...Baltic (White Star)?Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and her daughter; Mrs. Roswell Miller, bound for Skibo Castle, their Scotch home; Mrs. Beth Sully Fairbanks, with her son Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and his tutor, Carlton Hoekstra...