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Lieut. Schildhauer's resignation gave impetus to rumors in Manhattan that General Motors was fast losing interest in the idea of manufacturing Dornier boats in the U. S. General Motors reputedly agreed to pay $250,000 to Dr. Dornier for U. S. rights (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929) but did...
Lakes & Streams. When New Jersey's State Board of Commerce & Navigation ruled that aircraft must not alight on Jersey's inland waters, loud was the protest of the men who build, sell and operate seaplanes and amphibians (TIME, Sept. 29). H. Stewart McDonald Jr., counsel for the Aeronautical...
Unprecedented, this ruling whipped up a squall of protest. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce called in William Patterson MacCracken Jr., chairman of its legal committee, demanded a hearing before the board. There was talk of a test case in court. Manufacturers?particularly of seaplanes and amphibians?were incredulous. Their whole...
Cautious Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, withheld his opinion while he began a careful study of the case. Said he solemnly: "If the disadvantages in allowing seaplanes to navigate . . . are so serious and numerous as to offset the possible benefits which might accrue to the state...
Hot words shot about the conference room of the Fédération Aéronautique International last week. Delegates from France and Italy glared across the meeting table at delegates from Great Britain. For a time it appeared that one nation or more might bolt the Federation. Reason...