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...noting speech at the recent State Democratic Convention (held in Crazy Hotel), the Collins machine had taken an anti-New-Deal, anti-Third-Term stand, toyed with the idea of plumping for Willkie. Whereupon revolt broke loose against the Collins machine. And New Deal Congressman Clyde L. Garrett (since defeated for renomination by a Collins candidate) went after Collins' business flank, threw nothing in the way of the FTC complaint...
...nearly a century Philadelphians proudly pointed to Cramp's, the shipyards that made the slow-moving Delaware the "Clyde of America." When William Cramp founded the shipyard in 1830, he built fleet wooden clippers, helped make the U. S. one of the world's greatest seafaring nations. In the Civil War, Cramp's helped turn the tide for the Union with ironclads and monitors...
...Organized an Aviation Division, with 30 pilots for a starter, including Rear Admiral Byrd, Bernt Balchen. Clyde Pangborn, Roscoe Turner, to publicize the Committee with a nationwide air tour...
...Reno, waiting for her divorce decree, French Actress Swana Beaucaire went to a movie that changed her mind, wired Husband Clyde Pangborn, shy, soft-spoken round-the-world flier: "COME AND GET ME. I DON'T WANT A DIVORCE." He went...
...carriage designed for rough landings. Guba and Mercenaries. Busy little Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, kept his show in the headlines by buying .New York Oil Tycoon Richard Archbold's 14-ton Consolidated flying boat, the Guba, fitted for tropical exploration, and engaging famed U. S. Pilot Clyde Pangborn to shuttle it back & forth across the Atlantic with three-and-a-half-ton loads of aluminum for British aircraft factories. Pilot Pangborn appeared last week at Oakland, Calif, to enlist other U. S. fliers (between 20 and 40, with 500 hours) as R. A. F. instructors in Canada...