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...Parliament reassembled last week the biggest armament man in the world, trim, grey-mustached Eugène Schneider, stood figuratively at bay. All through Depression the giant Schneider-Creusot works have been racing to fill orders, their furnaces blazing and their lathes screaming as they turned out guns and projectiles for Japan, and for such other good customers as China. With the French budget now cracking under a deficit of seven and one-half billion francs, the Chamber's ruling Left-Center politicians have resolved in recent weeks to crack down on French munitions makers for a larger share...
Returning to a subject which it has often skirted but never actively attacked, the Radical Socialist Party of France has now pledged itself to a thorough investigation of the international arms and munitions racket. They are especially aroused over the activities of the Schneider-Creusot firm. The current charge against it is that it sold 400 tanks to Germany, through the medium of Holland. As yet the truth of this particular accusation is not known, but the history of this and other armament firms would hold them guilty until proved without any question, innocent. Last summer Beverley Nichols turned...
First Race. Powered with one Napier-Schneider Cup 1,375-h. p. engine, against the four 1 ,650-h. p. Packard motors in Gar Wood's 38½-ft. Miss America X, the 24½-ft. duralumin-hulled challenger was well known to be much slower, even if her maximum speed was 100 m.p.h., as re- ported. Her chance was to beat Miss America X on the turns, which Hubert Scott-Paine expected to make at full speed while Miss America X was laboriously slowing down and regaining speed. The water was smooth when the boats roared out across...
...back to England, started him in airplane building. In the War, Hubert Scott-Paine became a director of Imperial Airways, to whose board he still belongs. In 1921 he helped build up British Supermarine Motor Co. He sank his whole fortune financing and building the plane that won the Schneider Cup from Italy in 1922, defended it suc- cessfully the next year. He happened into the motorboat building industry when he and his wife, Brenda Scott-Paine, almost as good a boat-driver as her husband, were planning a trip to Africa on their power cruiser. He went...
...such a military scheme there can be no individual stars. Nor are there any in Italo Balbo's personal scheme. Soon after Balbo took office, famed Col. Mario de Bernardi. Schneider Trophy winner in 1926, turned up in civilian clothes. Arturo Ferrarin (Rome-Tokyo; Rome-Brazil) landed on the reserve list. And Col. Francesco de Pinedo awoke halfway around the world one morning to find himself exiled to Buenos Aires as military attach...