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Alvan Tufts Fuller, Packard Motor Car dealer in Boston, Governor of Massachusetts: "Last week I purchased in Paris, for 58,000 francs, a painting, The Statue, by Hubert Robert, the lively 18th Century French painter admired by Voltaire. Fortnight ago I secured at the Michelham sale in London (TIME, Dec. 6) Romney's much coveted portrait of Lady de la Pole, for $220,000. I often buy pictures. Less frequently, I write poetry...
None the less, U. S. rubber manufacturers are at the mercy of British growers. Vexed, last week Firestone, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear, Ajax, Fisk, Kelly-Springfield decided to circumvent the forestallers. They invited General Motors, Willys-Overland, Dodge Bros., Packard, Studebaker and other interested firms into their compact; created a $40,000,000 fund to buy up at once 50,000 tons ($30,000,000 worth) of crude rubber. This will be put in storage. If crude prices go above 42? a pound, manufacturers can draw on this store or the whole amount may be dumped against a rising...
...aircraft were the Navy's big new, Packard-motored all-steel PN-10 seaplanes, built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard especially for long-range scouting. The flight to Panama had been planned to test their efficiency and was to have been conducted under the supervision of the late Commander John Rodgers, hero of the Navy flight last year (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), in a PN9 from California to Hawaii. After Commander Rodgers' ironic death (TIME, Sept. 6), the leadership had passed to Flight Commander Harold T. Bartlett, son of a Connecticut schoolmaster, seconded by Lieut. Byron J. Connell...
...report for Popolo d'ltalia, Correspondent Freddi gave full credit to the U. S. flyers. He told of the difficulties before the race-how high winds had delayed the start, how Lieutenant W. G. Tomlinson, on a trial flight, wrecked the best U. S. plane, a Curtiss Packard reputed to be capable of going 250 miles an hour. All week the flyers had been tuning up their seaplanes, practising pylon turns against a factory chimney near the Anacostia River...