Aeronautics: Sold by Doolittle

Sold by Doolittle

Two years ago Major James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle led a team of airmen through Europe with U. S. Curtiss-built military planes. At Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, Prague, Berlin, etc. they made demonstration nights, talked serious business with chiefs of state, army leaders, ministers of transportation. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. announced one of the fruits of Salesman Doolittle's roadwork: a contract with the Turkish Government to survey and direct the building of airways and airports, build and operate factories for construction of Curtiss-Wright planes.

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