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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lunch we resumed our flight to Cochabamba in a Junkers tri-motor land plane. . . . The pilots and crews of the planes in which we flew were all Bolivians, and they all spoke German but not English...
...Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...
Airplanes. Ever since he told reporters that he could build 1,000 airplanes a day, Henry Ford's return to the aircraft business (he stopped making Ford tri-motors in 1932) has been waited for. Last week he and his production chief, tough, profane Charles E. Sorensen, were stroking their chins over a variety of projects- high-powered Rolls-Royce engines, shot-welded Duralumin fuselages, even plastics. From London, Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Air, announced that Ford would make 6,000 Rolls-Royces for Britain; from Washington, Defense Advisory Commissioner William S. Knudsen announced that Ford would make...
Time to sell a shipbuilding firm is when it's feasting. That is what huge (6 ft. 5, 240 lb.), gentle, scholarly Archer Milton Huntington, son of the founder, thought last week when he sold Newport News to a Wall Street investment banking group headed by Tri-Continental Corp. For a reputed price of $18,000,000, aging (70) Archer Huntington and his wife turned over their 29,644 shares; the balance of the firm's 100,000 shares were delivered by various Huntington trusts, estates and cultural institutions. One of the last of the big family-owned...
Pleased at having plucked this prize away from Lehman Bros, and Blyth & Co., who bid too low, Tri-Continental announced that its syndicate would keep a third of the shares, sell the rest. Rumor was that Newport News's President Homer Lenoir Ferguson, Annapolis man and head of the firm for 25 years, would step up to board chairman, boss the show from there, while his handsome Vice President Roger Williams, former Navy line officer, would take over as president...