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...Wilson, 25, met his old friend Airliner Co-Pilot Louis F. Reppert Jr. "It was agreed," said the report of a Congressional investigating committee, "that Lieut. Wilson would attempt to time his take-off [next day] from Long Beach to conform with the time of the airliner at Burbank so that they could meet some place in the vicinity of San Gorgonio Pass." The plan clicked; at the rendezvous Lieut. Wilson waggled his plane's wings in greeting. He passed in front of the airliner...
...Burbank's Lockheed Air Terminal, with its buildings painted a wartime khaki, was drab under a cloudy sky when American Airlines' Captain Charles F. Pedley lifted his Douglas twin-motored liner off for the 4:30 p.m. flight to New York. He climbed gradually to skim the jagged, purple San Jacinto Mountains. Forty minutes after the takeoff, approaching Palm Springs, he was flying at 9,000 in clear sunshine. There were numerous planes in the air; Pilot Pedley was straight on his course...
Best Mousetrap. How Disney developed his garage-studio of pre-Mickey days into the world's biggest and best mousetrap at Burbank, Calif, is a typical success story, except that its dollars are inseparably twined with its art. Disney fought for both against distributors, who could see small profit in shorts, small reason therefore to make them better. He preached and proved that quality and nothing else would produce advancing prof its. The demonstration began with hastily sound-dubbed Steamboat Willie - first successful Mickey Mouse-and became convincing with the first Silly Symphony to use color...
Even contractors on the job didn't know what the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. was putting together at its Burbank plant. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. was going to buy the mystery ship -but most of the company's directors didn't know...
American Airlines announced that Phoenix, Ariz, would hereafter be the night-time Western terminal for their transcontinental flights. Westbound passengers will be bedded overnight in Phoenix, flown on next morning to the Burbank, Calif, airport. Reason: radio beams may be shut off at any time, in a West Coast air alarm...