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Curtiss Quandary. As Odlum's problem was to get rid of capital he couldn't use, the main Curtiss-Wright problem has been to get new capital. Like other U. S. aircraft companies, it has grown from small beginnings by ploughing earnings back into new plant capacity. Now its biggest problem is to fill $140,000,000 of new orders quickly and profitably, to find means of taking a great many more new orders which could be bagged by any company with the right product and idle capacity. For three reasons Curtiss-Wright has been unable to raise...
Donahue isn't now to fronting a band by any means. For some years past, he led a very successful "society" combo that played record engagements at the Rainbow Room in New York City and all over the East. However, last year he decided to get rid of the "English drawing-room" name that his band acquired and adopt swing. What the management thought would never happen, did: "Low-down Rhythm In A Tophat" was an instanteous success at the staid Rainbow Room. Enough so that Donahue made his decision to leave the pastures of the broad A forevermore...
...Early this year War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha became such a bumptious headache that Mr. Chamberlain dismissed him. By last week Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin had caused so much trouble for the Government that London's censor-controlled newspapers suggested that the Prime Minister had better get rid of this Leslie...
...less than five of the 15 deal with various aspects of education, by means of which Professor Hogben is sure that civilization could be saved-or for the first time created. "If European civilization does not use science to rid itself of [war, poverty and disease], war will probably destroy our Anglo-American civilization. . . irreparably...
Today, having got rid of some of its financial oddments like Checker Cab, ATCO owns majority control of New York Shipbuilding Co., the largest single interest (28.5%) in sick Auburn Automobile Co. It also spreads through the flying business like the branches of a banyan tree. This is because of its working (29.7%) control of Aviation Corp., which in turn owns outright a third-layer subsidiary, Aviation Manufacturing Co. AMCO owns Stinson (military and commercial planes), Lycoming (engines) and 60% stock control of Vultee (military planes). Furthermore, its parent Aviation Corp. owns potential working control of American Airlines, through...