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...claim. It had turned out 126,000,000 pounds of aircraft, compared to 115,000,000 for Douglas. But Douglas also had an argument. Thousands of planes produced by Consolidated were easy-to-build trainers, instead of hard-to-build combat ships. Furthermore, Consolidated had merged with Vultee and Stinson in '43, lumped all production...
...Aircraft. When officially joined some time this month, the new Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. will be a vast, highflying enterprise with $270,000,000 total assets, annual sales of over $500,000,000, annual profits of roughly $15,000,000. Its line of aircraft, moreover, will include everything from Stinson "flying jeeps" and private planes to deadly Vultee dive-bombers, long-range, four-engined Consolidated Liberator bombers and Coronado flying boats-plus a titanic, semisecret 400-passenger plane now abuilding...
Financier Emanuel started off by cutting the fat from Aviation Corp., getting top-notch production men to run the manufacturing divisions. Then he started pushing Aviation Corp.'s Vultee and Stinson divisions, pushed so hard Vultee was soon the No. 1 U.S. training-plane maker and Stinson one of the best known private-plane makers. Then came Emanuel's big coup: with $11,000,000 cash (two-thirds of it begged & borrowed) his pet Vultee bought into Consolidated. To make sure nothing went wrong, Emanuel tagged tough, dynamic Republic Steel Board Chairman Tom Girdler to run both Vultee...
Despite rumors that flying has been discontinued, the Flying Club's Stinson 105 is still being flown from Beverly Airport. Many members of the Club have been able to regain their licenses after the Government's revocation of all private flying privileges, and those who have not yet done so may be reinstated by complying with certain regulations...
...MARY M. STINSON...