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...this feat, Lockheed's Bob Gross has to share the credit with Jack Frye and Howard Hughes, the thin-faced, lanky flyer, tool maker, brewer, financier and movie maker, who owns the controlling interest in TWA. Six years ago, Hughes and Frye decided that TWA should expand its routes around the world. For this, they needed a new plane. So they drew up specifications for the Constellation, gave Lockheed the job of designing and building...
Trains. The two largest manufacturers of electric trains were swamped with orders. The A. C. Gilbert Co. (American Flyer trains) hoped to get its assembly line started some time in October. Lionel Corp. did not expect to deliver trains before Oct. 15, would have few in time for Christmas; but did promise some tracks and other model railroad equipment for the Christmas trade...
...started to make bicycle parts three months ago, will deliver a few bicycles in October. But it will be November before Murray Ohio and most other manufacturers begin mass production of velocipedes, tricycles, small automobiles and other wheeled toys. S. L. Allen & Co. was ready to make Flexible Flyer sleds again, believed it could turn out about 10% of its normal prewar production before snow flies...
Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, a 62-year-old flyer, had just taken command of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Now the Army countered with a new West Point superintendent: Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, 44, commander of the loist Airborne Division. Handsome Missouri-born General Taylor, who speaks fluent French, Spanish and Japanese, will be the youngest Military Acaeemy head since young (39) Douglas Mac Arthur took over the Point in 1919. Taylor graduated fourth in his class the last year MacArthur was there...
Captain John survived the Liscome Bay's sinking off Makin Island in late 1943, Captain Henry, only non-flyer among the Annapolis-trained brothers, commanded a destroyer division, participating in many a Pacific raid. Lieut. Commander Quentin, youngest (27) of the five, bosses a fighter squadron aboard a Pacific carrier...