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...brand-new editorial management marched in this week to take charge of the Saturday Evening Post. Only a fortnight after the Post uncorked its unprecedented price boost from 5? to 10? (TIME, March 9), Editor Wesley Winans Stout abruptly quit his job, after a "disagreement on policy." With him went...
Built to make nonstop, coast-to-coast flights for TWA, the Constellation has a range of 4,000 miles, can carry 57 passengers and a crew of seven. Her four 2,500-h.p. motors can boost her along at 283 m.p.h. cruising speed (100 m.p.h. faster than present transports), can rev it up to 350 m.p.h. The Constellation will be able to streak across the continent in eight and a half hours (four and a half hours faster than TWA's fastest...
...began hanging around airports craning his neck at planes. By 1931 he was a T.W.A. director; by 1933 an officer or director of Western Air Express, Eastern Air Lines, Pan American Airways. Then G.M. made Breech head of wobbly North American Aviation (29.1% G.M.-controlled), told him to boost production and do it fast. Breech did: North American's sales last year were about $100,000,000 against...
...Chrysler is pretty sure to borrow. The company is huffing & puffing to boost munitions output to $1,750,000,000 annually, nearly three times average 1937-41 sales. As a starter, it spent at least $60,000,000 of its own cash last year for new plants, new machinery, more inventory. Consequently, its year-end cash was only $69,000,000-a four-year low, and a reason for Chrysler's recent dividend...
...Good Neighbor policy (rubber division) got another boost last week when President Roosevelt vetoed a bill which would have encouraged the growing of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants. His objection: the bill's encouragement was confined to the U.S.; he wanted Mexican and Brazilian rubber promoted too. A Senate committee hastily revised the bill to promote guayule-growing anywhere in the Western Hemisphere...