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Quiet Graham Bethune Grosvenor was president of wide-flung Aviation Corp. for two years when he was succeeded by hardbitten Frederic Gallup Coburn. President Coburn had served approximately two years last week when suddenly he relinquished the executive office on the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building to a broad-framed young man with a grin and a pipe. It was not surprising that the name of the president-elect, La Motte Turck Cohu, should be better known in Wall Street than in airway operations. Avco, which has yet to show black ink on a profit & loss statement...
...small supplies were exhausted. Hungry ponies hunched head-to-head in the icy blast. Families crouched over small fires or cowered in the protection of their thin canvas wagon tops. It was decided that as many as possible should take the weakened ponies down to the Zuni settlement near Gallup, there strengthen them and bring them back. Three hundred braves trudged into the Zuni pueblos last week, dropped exhausted on the warm earthen floors. As soon as they were informed of the peril of their red-skinned charges, U. S. Indian agents organized rescue parties, made off for the snow...
...Philip Johnson of United Air Lines; Frederic Gallup Coburn of American Airways; Clement Melville Keys of Transcontinental & Western; Harris Hanshue of Western Air Express; Capt. Thomas B. Doe of Eastern Air Transport; Edwin G. Thompson of Transamerica Airlines Corp.; Col. L. H. Brittin of Northwest Airways; Alfred Frank of National Parks Airways...
...engine company, its factory and flying field at Farmingdale, L. I., to Aviation Corp. In return it received the common stock held by Aviation Corp. in Fairchild. Control of the company passed to the group of minority stockholders headed by Sherman Fairchild, who was elected president to succeed Frederic Gallup Coburn...
Three planes per day each way has been the New York-Boston schedule of American Airways' Colonial Division. Last week the schedule was speeded up to six planes each way, one every two hours. Explained President Frederic Gallup Coburn: "It has been the necessary practice of airlines in the past to offer infrequent schedules, which meant passengers must adjust themselves to the service. . . . We are reversing that order." But another incentive for the doubled pressure might have been the report that Ludington line, which operates a plane-per-hour service between New York and Washington, was thinking of flying...