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...Fact: Mr. Evans, onetime publicity vice president of American Airways, left the latter after Cord's advent, anticipating his greater glory in Washington. Legend: Eugene L. Vidal. air chief of the Commerce Department is Cord's ally. Fact: Mr. Vidal, when running the independent Ludington Lines, bought Stinson planes from Mr. Cord, later made a confidential airline survey for an advertising agency engaged by Cord. (Elliott Roosevelt got the agency the business through Cord's stockmarket ally, Frank A. Vanderlip.) The survey was not flattering to American Airways. Legend: James Aloysius Farley himself is Cord...
...between flight schedules, to save money. Henceforth they will burn through the night. Of the Branch's 60 planes for official use, 14 have been put in dead storage. Director Vidal travels not in the handsome Ford tri-motor NSt used by Col. Young, but in a small Stinson which he flies himself...
...afternoon last week at Wayne County Airport, near Detroit, three officials of Stinson Aircraft Corp. flew a new type Stinson tri-motor. The three were Chief Engineer Arthur Saxon, 29, who had been eight years with Stinson, helped design its first plane; his assistant, Samuel Benson; and Chief Test Pilot Owen Pinaire. With two tons of lead ballast in the cabin, they wanted to try the plane's stability...
...years rolled by Showman Gates built up a substantial troupe. Names like Silas Christofferson, Lincoln Beachey, Art Smith, Katherine Stinson appeared on his flamboyant handbills. In early days he netted perhaps $2,000 merely for a 10-minute flight above the fair grounds, and not always did his patched-up planes stay up ten minutes. Later it was stunting, wing-walking, plane-to-plane jumps, standing on looping planes, that brought in gate receipts...
...full-page newspaper advertisements Mr. Cord shouted that his accusations of extravagance, speculation, mismanagement, "illegal payments to officers.'' loss of 838,000,000 by the Avco management had gone unanswered. He denied Avco's charge that he had tried to force his Stinson planes upon the company; denied placing "spies" in Avco ranks; admitted losing money on his Century Air Lines (bought by Avco), pleaded that it was a five-month-old venture without benefit of airmail. He flayed the directorate for "railroading" important deals, told stockholders that "if we had not stopped the directors from making the [North American...