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...Grim-faced Speculator Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith announced he would quit the brokerage business. Ben Smith reportedly made up to $10,000,000 monthly in spectacular bear raids during 1929-30. Since then he has dabbled in everything from airplanes to pepper: Grumman Aircraft, several Mexican oil deals, Alaska-Juneau and Mclntyre Porcupine gold mines, George Weston bakeries, the magazine Pathfinder, Eddie Dowling's girlie show Thumbs Up, the promotion of Dick Merrill's transatlantic flight...
Recently four top-flight Pan Am troubleshooters, on a survey flight were forced to return to the Caribbean without going south of Natal. They were flying a Grumman amphibian which required special flight permissions, and these the Brazilian Aeronautics Ministry, which is a cumbersome body, including some Nazi sympathizers, refused to grant...
Avenger for the Grumman TBF torpedo bombers...
Pictured on page 19 are types of carrier planes which would bear the brunt of naval air war if it comes before the ships now on order are available: Grumman fighters, designed to protect the fleet from enemy attack by destroying enemy planes; Douglas torpedo planes, for attack on enemy vessels; Curtiss scout bombers, whose dual role is to scout and to pepper the enemy ships with light bombs...
...also had leak-proofed tanks (which Martin and Manufacturer Leroy Grumman had for years vainly begged the Army and Navy to use), armored cockpits...