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...president & treasurer virile, energetic Donald Lament Brown, who joined Pratt & Whitney as factory manager in 1925, quickly rose to vice president in charge of production, was elected president in 1930. Boeing Airplane Co., a $4,310,000 company to acquire all outstanding stock of Boeing Airplane Co. and Stearman Aircraft Co. This new western manufacturing group, with headquarters at Seattle, Wash., will have as president Claire L. Egtvedt. chief engineer of Boeing since 1918, vice president & general manager since 1926. The reorganization, already approved by the board of directors, will be effected by an exchange of stock...
...length of the Panama Canal (in many an installment), living on a West Indies island à la Robinson Crusoe. His books (The Royal Road to Romance, The Glorious Adventure, New Worlds to Conquer) have sold more than 250,000 copies, not counting $1 reprints. In his Wright-powered Stearman biplane, The Flying Carpet, piloted by one Moye Stephens, Halliburton rode leisurely from London to Manila. On the way they stopped at Timbuctoo, spent two months with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, visited Petra, Bagdad, India's Taj Mahal, claimed the first airplane photograph of Mt. Everest (Halliburton publishes...
...Lloyd C. Stearman, 33, plane designer, founder and onetime president of United Aircraft & Transport's subsidiary, Stearman Aircraft Co., was made president of reorganized Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Formerly a unit of defunct Detroit Aircraft, Lockheed was purchased at a receiver's sale last month by Walter T. Varney, pioneering West coast airline operator...
...maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...
Grover C. (amphibians) Loening, first man to get a degree for aeronautical research (M. A., Columbia), wished a thrill last week, strapped a parachute to his back, went up in a Stearman over Roosevelt Field, L. I., at 2,000 feet jumped, and landed grinning...