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...Gamelin. This time Mr. Chamberlain took with him four members of his Cabinet-Lord Halifax (Foreign Affairs), Winston Churchill (Admiralty), Oliver Stanley (War), Sir Kingsley Wood (Air)-plus a number of underling specialists and General Sir Edmund Ironside, chief of the British Imperial General Staff, and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound. M. Daladier produced their French opposite numbers and the whole Allied hierarchy sat for three hours in the morning, 90 minutes in the evening, with long powwows over maps for the military specialists between times. "It was the finest meeting of the War Council I ever attended...
...Columbus must have derived great satisfaction from this voyage. . . . Over the biggest fleet that had yet crossed deep water, manned by twelve to fifteen hundred seamen ... he had kept discipline during a voyage that lasted fourteen weeks . . . and lost but a single...
...years to come, when suffering in mind and body from the evil nature of man, the ingratitude of princes, and the frowns of Providence, Columbus may have sought consolation in the memory of those bright November days of 1493, the fleet gaily coasting along the lofty verdure-clad Antilles with trade-wind clouds piling up over their summits and rainbows bridging their deep-cleft valleys; of the nights when he lay quietly at anchor in the lee of the land with his gallant fleet all about, stars of incredible brightness overhead, and hearty voices joining in the evening hymn...
...killed in 1915 Larry Bell was back as a mechanic for Early-Bird Glenn L. Martin (whose firm was then listed in the Los Angeles telephone book under "Amusements"). By 1925 he was vice president and general manager of Martin, by 1929 had the same job with Major Reuben Fleet's Consolidated Aircraft Corp. at Buffalo...
When "Rube" Fleet moved his company to San Diego in 1935, Larry Bell leased the old plant, raised $400,000 by stock sales in Buffalo and became president of Bell Aircraft Corp., with Robert J. Woods as his boss designer. While Woods was turning out the two-engined Airacuda, Bell Aircraft was making ends meet by subcontracting for other manufacturers; but by the time the Air Corps had bought 13 Airacudas, Larry Bell could see the Airacobra and a real manufacturing future ahead. Last week on Bell's books were Air Corps orders for 93 Airacobras, and its backlog...