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...first year in office, President Vargas has done almost nothing. On none of Brazil's pressing problems-inflation, transport, oil, agricultural development-has he shown the initiative for which he was once famous. Some Brazilians guessed last week that he is just waiting for the right moment to make himself dictator again. Others say he is trying so hard to govern constitutionally that he lets a disorganized Congress mess up all his measures. But another story heard in Rio is that Getulio, now 68, just does not care any more, that all he really wanted was the vindication...
...Sunday, Dec. 30, a pilot of an Air Force transport gambled 28 lives, including his own and the lives of 19 West Point cadets, against a few hours of flying time, and lost when his C-47 crashed in the mountains northeast of Phoenix, Ariz. Within 24 hours the weather had cleared . . . This was only one of a long succession of Air Force crashes attributed, at least by newspaper reports, to flying in bad weather...
Douglas Aircraft announced a new civilian plane, the DC-7. The four-engined commercial transport will have a top speed of more than 400 m.p.h. and a cruising speed of more than 360 m.p.h., 50 m.p.h. faster than the DC-6. Eight feet longer than the DC-6, the new plane will have wider aisles and seats and carry 60 to 95 passengers, v. 46 to 70 in the DC-6. American Airlines has 25 DC-75 on order, will put the first planes in service...
...first president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and longtime aviation financier; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the post-World War I slump he bought control of the old Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., by 1929 had 1) financed $80 million worth of aviation enterprises, 2) formed the Transcontinental Air Transport, forefather of T.W.A., with Charles A. Lindbergh as technician-executive, 3) helped finance the first trans-U.S. airmail and passenger services, 4) started the first passenger service in China...
...Although it has more than $400 million of defense orders on its books, Martin does not have enough working capital to keep going. One reason: it was hard hit in the postwar collapse of the airplane industry. Another: it took such heavy losses on its new 4-0-4 transport, which it sold to Eastern Air Lines and TWA at too low a price, that its 1950 net of $3.1 million turned into an estimated 1951 loss of more than $20 million...