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June 27, 1929

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$70,000,000 AIR DEAL COMBINES KEYSTONE, WRIGHT AND CURTISS; Nine Affiliated Concerns Also in Largest Domestic Aviation Holding Company. DIRECTORS APPROVE PLAN C. M. Keys to Be President and R. F. Hoyt Chairman of the New Corporation. SHARES TO BE EXCHANGED Wide Economies Are Expected and Research Work Will Be Expanded. Exchange of Stock. $70,000,000 AIR DEAL COMBINES THREE Many Manufacturing Units, Other Companies May Join. Pioneers in the Merger.

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Wright Aeronautical Corp, Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co and Keystone Aircraft Co merge as Curtiss-Wright Corp

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Dick the Bruiser

1929Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (died 1991)[†]

William Fritz Afflis Jr. was an American professional wrestler, promoter, and National Football League player, better known by his ring name, Dick the Bruiser. During his NFL days he played four seasons with the Green Bay Packers. He was also a very successful professional wrestler: sixteen-time world champion, AWA World Heavyweight Champion once, WWA World Heavyweight Champion thirteen times, World Heavyweight Champion once, and WWA World Heavyweight Champion once. He also excelled at tag-team wrestling, with 20 tag team championships in his career. Eleven of these championships were won alongside his long-time tag-team partner Crusher Lisowski.

Peter Maas

1929Peter Maas, American journalist and author (died 2001)[†]

Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish ancestry.