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...international airways, was in a mood for fighting last week. In Washington, it chucked an indignant brief onto the Civil Aeronautics Board desk. Its charge: gross Government favoritism in granting Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and American Airlines, Inc. postwar transatlantic routes. The protest was polite, but by mentioning Plane-Builder Howard Hughes, it left the door ajar enough to drag in T.W.A.'s president, jowly, hard-flying Jack Frye, and his friend, Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt...
Representative Keefe hinted that the answer would involve Government agencies, Congressmen, Senators and other bigwigs. He went to Chicago to probe by himself. By last week one speculator, other than General Foods and Dan Rice, had been identified: tall, ministerial Plane-Builder Glenn L. Martin. The Department of Agriculture charged that he and his broker had violated a Government regulation that limits the amount of rye futures an individual may trade daily to 2,000,000 bushels. Glenn Martin's broker had traded 3,000,000 bushels...
Bombardment by Kaiser. Irrepressible Builder Henry J. Kaiser opened his campaign to keep postwar control of the west coast steel works which he built with Government money...
Died. John Reynard Todd, 77, lean, legally trained builder and manager of Manhattan's blossom-bedecked Rockefeller Center, and an avid amateur horticulturist (like his good friend Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...fleets. But the tin-hatted, horn-handed men who built the Midway are accustomed to superlatives. They have long bragged that: 1) Newport News is the biggest U.S. shipyard; 2) its sharp-eyed, terrier-like boss, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, 72, is by all odds the best builder of warships in the U.S., if not in the world...