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...flown, however, the news of its spectacular 10,000-mile cruising range was out, and the Navy, one of Consolidated^ best customers, poked in its nose. At week's end it appeared likely that Model 31's first assignment will be as a patrol bomber for the fleet...
...Smith arranged the five-year transition with the help of two vice presidents, Ralph Damon and Charles A. Rheinstrom. Brought from the presidency of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., energetic Ralph Damon modernized and standardized American's fleet, which now consists of 50 Douglas "flagships," and has the magnificent operating record of no passenger fatalities since January 1936. High-powered Charles Rheinstrom pepped up American's sales technique, invented airline "scrip," since adopted by the major domestic lines. In advertising, C.R. Smith and his two first lieutenants were equally progressive. One of their headlines: "Fewer Husbandless Nights...
...Fleet ham, and Ben Whitehill are the other boys who cavert in the outer gardens...
...Odessa, Soviet Russia took delivery on the latest addition to its Black Sea fleet, the Italian-built, 2,895-ton destroyer Tashkent...
...Great Britain's coveted Ascot Gold Cup last year with Flares, a son of Gallant Fox. But Turfman Woodward, a serious student of blood lines, took special pride in his long-legged Johnstown, whom railbirds nicknamed "Big John." It was his idea to breed his fleet-footed Jamestown with La France, a beautiful little mare who, because of a broken hip, never could race. Johnstown was their foal and Owner Woodward had followed the colt's career as though he were an only child...