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	Mr Walter Donald Douglas
		Mr Walter Donald Douglas, 50, was born in Iowa on 21 April 1861.
		Douglas retired on Jan. 1, 1912, and the couple took off on a three-month tour of Europe to find furnishings for their palatial retreat (3).
		Douglas' niece Margaret Douglas married famous Cedar Rapids entrepreneur Howard Hall.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /biography/97 (503 words)

	Guardian \| Donald Douglas
		Although Douglas took the firm that his aviation pioneer father created into the space age, and developed successful airliners, these achievements came after the dramatic early days, and he never achieved the glamour that was attached to his father.
		Douglas moved to McDonnell's base in St Louis to become senior vice-president of the new McDonnell Douglas firm, which was a key developer of the F18 Hornet, as well as cruise missiles.
		Douglas is survived by his wife Linda, and a daughter from an earlier marriage.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5040756-108958,00.html (749 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Donald Douglas : Biography
		Actor Donald Douglas came to Hollywood in 1934 to play the small role of "Mac" in the film version of Sidney Kingsley's Men in White (1934).
		Douglas was given more of a chance to shine on radio; in the 1943 Mutual network mystery anthology Black Castle, Douglas played all the parts, including the announcer.
		Donald Douglas died suddenly at the age of 40, not long after completing work on Gilda (1946), in which he played Thomas Langford.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/17514/bio.jhtml (157 words)

	Donald Douglas Jr.; son of Douglas Aircraft founder; 87 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Donald W. Douglas Jr., who as president of Douglas Aircraft Co. introduced the DC-8 airliner and brought the aircraft manufacturer into the jet age, has died.
		Douglas was named president of the company in 1957, a year before the DC-8 was introduced.
		Douglas later was appointed director of the testing division and, under his direction, the DC-6 and DC-7 airliners were certified.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041015/news_1m15douglas.html (224 words)

	PBS - Chasing the Sun - Donald Douglas
		Douglas, the son of a Scottish bank clerk, had been attending the U. Naval Academy for three years before deciding to transfer to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) to become an aeronautical engineer.
		Douglas was looking for a way to make his dream of an aircraft company come true when he met a wealthy playboy named David R. Davis.
		Douglas remained president of the Douglas Aircraft Company until 1957 when he passed day-to-day operations over to his son.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/ddouglas.html (582 words)

	Donald W. Douglas.
		Donald Wills Douglas was one of the most famous aircraft builders in the history of aviation.
		Douglas' new company steadily grew stronger, building planes for the army air corps, the army, and the U.S. Post Office in the 1920s.
		Douglas' reputation was so great that Fortune magazine wrote in 1941 that "the development of the airplane in the days between the wars is the greatest engineering story there ever was, and in the heart of it is Donald Douglas."
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/douglas/DI130.htm (337 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Donald Douglas - March 2006 (PRINT-FRIENDLY)
		Donald Douglas was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1892, the second son of William and Dorothy Douglas.
		Douglas recognized that the biplane formula was obsolete and introduced a new design that catered to his inveterate interest in the sea.
		Douglas knew the end of the war would mean the end of the era of huge military contracts.
	www.afa.org /magazine/March2006/0306douglas.html (2629 words)

	Boeing: Donald.Wills.Douglas.Sr. -- Executive Biography
		Donald Wills Douglas, the second son of an assistant cashier of the National Park Bank, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 6, 1892, and started his education at Trinity Chapel School in New York City.
		Douglas was determined to make it on his own, in spite of having only $600 and a family to support.
		Douglas leased the abandoned buildings of the Herman Film Corp. at 2345 Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, Calif., where he built the Douglas World Cruiser.
	www.boeing.com /history/mdc/douglas.htm (688 words)

	First Flight Shrine: Donald W. Douglas - The First Flight Society - The First Flight Society
		onald Willis Douglas, native of Brooklyn, New York, contributed to the nation’s aeronautical safety and progress as a designer and manufacturer of military and commercial aircraft.
		Douglas became interested in aviation when he witnessed Orville Wright’s flights in the Army’s bi-plane at Fort Myer, Virginia.
		The famous Douglas DC-3 became the world's most widely used airliner, and by 1941, his aircraft flew 95 percent of the airliner passenger miles in the United States.
	www.firstflight.org /shrine/donald_douglas.cfm (223 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Donald Douglas - March 2006
		Donald Douglas, shown in 1957 with models of the Douglas M-2 mail airplane (left) and the DC-6B, routinely worked an eight-hour day and traveled as little as possible.
		Douglas built thousands of C-47s, and as many as 3,000 were built under license in the Soviet Union and Japan.
		Douglas pursued the development of the basic DC-4 design far too long after the jet engine had arrived on the scene.
	www.afa.org /magazine/March2006/0306douglas.asp (2853 words)

	Los Angeles Then and Now
		Douglas, a New York native and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, moved to Los Angeles in 1920 to take advantage of its grand flying weather.
		Douglas asked his chief engineer and test pilot, Frank Collbohm, and a renowned architect, H Roy Kelley, to devise a way to camouflage the plant.
		Obituary: Donald W Douglas Jr (the page after that) - the passing of an era (and the last of the camouflage photos)...
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/flying/douglas_dream_in_santa_monica.htm (2127 words)

	Airlift/Tanker Association
		Engineer, visionary and entrepreneur, Donald W. Douglas was a monumental figure in aviation history.
		The C-124 quickly proved itself in supporting the United Nations forces in the Korean War, carrying personnel and cargo across the broad expanses of the Pacific, and in subsequent years was the single aircraft capable of reliable outsize cargo delivery until the introduction of the C-5.
		Douglas, of course, will be remembered for a great many other contributions to aeronautical history, but his vast impact on air transportation and his introduction of aircraft designed to support the strategic airflift mission mark him as an outstanding candidate for induction into the Airlifter Hall of Fame.
	www.atalink.org /hallfame/douglas.html (227 words)

	Donald Douglas - Biography - Moviefone
		Actor Donald Douglas came to Hollywood in 1934 to play the small role of "Mac" in the film version of Sidney Kingsley's Men in White (1934).
		Though occasionally a villain, the Scottish-born Douglas was usually cast in bland good-guy roles (e.g.
		Douglas was given more of a chance to shine on radio; in the 1943 Mutual network mystery anthology Black Castle, Douglas played all the parts, including the announcer.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/donald-douglas/19856/biography (167 words)

	Donald Douglas, a short biographys
		Donald Wills Douglas, the second son of an assistant cashier of the National Park Bank, was born in Brooklyn, New York, April 6, 1892, and started his education at Trinity Chapel School in New York City.
		Douglas leased the abandoned buildings of the Herman Film Corporation at 2345 Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, where he built the Douglas World Cruiser.
		The leased plants were closed at the end of the war, but Douglas continued to produce commercial and military transports, jet fighters, missiles and rockets.
	www.aiolosfilm.com /DWDouglasBio.html (642 words)

	Donald W. Douglas
		Donald Wills Douglas attended the U.S. Naval Academy and then became the first aeronautical student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his degree in 1914.
		In 1924, Donald Douglas was responsible for the design and production of the first airplanes to circumnavigate the Earth.
		The Douglas quality of rugged dependability and high performance is characteristic of the many thousand of military and research aircraft and missiles produced.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/douglas.htm (317 words)

	Donald Douglas Biography
		Donald Douglas is one of the most famous aircraft builders in the history of aviation.
		Douglas was a pioneer in the technology that would introduce global air transportation and change world travel.
		In 1924 Douglas was responsible for the design and production of the first airplane capable of cross-continental flight, the Douglas World Cruiser.
	history.enotes.com /wwii-home-biographies/douglas-donald (157 words)

	seMissourian.com: Story: Donald Douglas Sr.
		PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Donald L. Douglas Sr., 60, of Perryville died Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005, at Perry County Memorial Hospital.
		Douglas was a machine operator at Gilster-Mary Lee.
		Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Dawn Arosemena of Granite City; two sons, Donald and Matthew Douglas of Perryville; a sister, Linda Johnson of Illinois; a brother, Bobby Joe Douglas of Granite City; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
	www.semissourian.com /story/156242.html (115 words)

	Douglas Aircraft Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is most famous for the "DC" (Douglas Commercial) series of commercial aircraft, including what is often regarded as the most significant transport aircraft ever made: the DC-3, which was also produced as a military transport known as the C-47 Skytrain or simply "Dakota".
		Douglas created a wide variety of aircraft for the United States armed forces, the Navy in particular.
		Douglas was a pioneer in related fields, such as ejection seats, air-to-air, surface-to-air, and air-to-surface missiles, launch vehicles, bombs and bomb racks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_Aircraft_Company (588 words)

	Walter Donald Douglas :
		Miss Berthe Leroy, maid to Mahala Douglas, was offered this picture of her employer, who died in the sinking of the Titanic.
		She kept it with her until she passed away in 1972.
		She also treasured a book of poems by Mrs Douglas.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /item/2415 (125 words)

	Donald and Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Railway Series, it is stated that one of them is number 57646 (though it is only revealed to the reader that this is in fact Donald, when Douglas has the alarming thought "I hope the Fat Controller disnae realise I shouldna be here").
		Donald has had more accidents than Douglas, being 3 (1 in 'Break Van', and 2 in 'Twin Trouble').
		Donald and Douglas were the first Scottish engines to appear in the TV Series, and are the only known Scottish engines in the Railway Series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_and_Douglas (1039 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: Point of View: Donald Douglas’s Dream Preserved
		A young man, Donald Douglas, had a dream and that dream became an idea and grew from a humble beginning in the 1920’s located at Douglas park (which is named in his honor) into the largest employer in Santa Monica into the 1960’s.
		Hanging in the main “hanger” is the Douglas Cloudster (the “New Orleans”) which was built in Santa Monica and was the first airplane (along with sister plane “Chicago”) to circumnavigate the globe in 1924!
		The older museum, the Donald Douglas Air Museum, located on the south side of the airport, was in trouble.
	www.smmirror.com /volume4/issue6/donald_douglass_dream.asp (1103 words)

	Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. Summary
		The American aeronautical engineer Donald Wills Douglas (1892-1981) developed and manufactured aircraft that dominated the world market for many years.
		Donald Wills Douglas was born on April 6, 1892, in Brooklyn, New York.
		Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.(April 6, 1892 – February 1, 1981) was a United States aircraft industrialist.
	www.bookrags.com /Donald_Wills_Douglas,_Sr. (133 words)

	The Passing of an Era
		Engineer whose family's aviation company reached the space age but was swallowed by a conglomerate.
		Of Scottish ancestry, Douglas's father co-founded the Davis-Douglas Company in 1920 in southern California; 4 years later it became Douglas Aircraft.
		Douglas is survived by his wife Linda, a daughter, Victoria Douglas Thoreson, from an earlier marriage, brothers James and Malcolm and two grandchildren.
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/flying/obituary_donald_douglas_jr.htm (926 words)

	Burkean Reflections
		I can't really add much to what she says, except to say that her message is one that bears repeating, over and over again, so that each generation of Americans will never forget the price of freedom and peace.
		Ward Churchill, the radical ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado, was fired Tuesday by the university's board for plagiarism, falsification, and other academic misconduct.
		Irrationalism is certainly a crowning mark of the hard-left forces arrayed against the U.S. Sometimes, though, you have to get down in the trenches and engage these whacked-out loonies to experience it first hand (see here and here).
	burkeanreflections.blogspot.com (6962 words)

	At the beginning with Donald Douglas Flight Journal - Find Articles
		We built the Douglas Dolphin amphibian, both for commercial and possible military observation use.
		It was a beautiful airplane, but when we first tested it-flying out to Catalina Island, landing, taking off and landing again-the water came over the bow in such quantities that it almost drowned the engines.
		He was of Clan Douglas, and he learned, in his middle years, to play the bag-pipes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_200310/ai_n9342028 (856 words)

	Movable Beast » Who Will Be The Donald Douglas Of Space? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In case you don’t know (and not many people do), Donald Douglas (above) was the founder and longtime heart of the Douglas Aircraft Company.
		Douglas developed a lot of airplanes through the 20th Century, most of which were named the DC (Douglas Commercial) series.
		After all, all someone needs to do is get people out of the gravity well that is Earth, and the rest of the universe is open for exploration.
	www.movablebeast.com /?p=1073 (391 words)

	Donald & Douglas : The Scottish Twins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Donald and Douglas came to the island of Sodor all the way from Scotland.
		They were very well liked by the other engines, but had a reputation for mischief.
		However, Donald and Douglas proved themselves to be tireless workers and very good snow plowers.
	www.thomas-train.com /twins.htm (103 words)

	Donald & Douglas : The Scottish Twins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Donald and Douglas came to the island of Sodor all the way from Scotland.
		They were very well liked by the other engines, but had a reputation for mischief.
		However, Donald and Douglas proved themselves to be tireless workers and very good snow plowers.
	www.iglobal.com /Drew/twins.htm (103 words)

	Donald Douglas - Photos, Bio and News for Donald Douglas \| TVGuide.com
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