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...still in deep trouble. The planes were expensive to produce (price: $1,500,000), even cost lier to operate. Boeing made only 56 Stratocruisers for civilian customers. Net loss: $15 million. In 1948 more troubles piled up. This time they came from a bitter, 144-day strike by the Aero Mechanics Union at Seattle. Boeing wanted to revise wartime seniority provisions that prevented it from shifting workers and thereby cutting costs. The union said no, and 14,000 men went out. Civic groups in Seattle and the National Labor Relations Board asked Allen to bargain. He refused, contending that...
What personality makes the best jet pilot? Air Force Psychologist Saul B. Sells told the Aero Medical Association last week that after a five-year study, still going on, he and his colleagues have constructed this composite picture...
...inventories will be worked off by the end of the first quarter, expects a sharp upturn in spring and total sales of at least 160,000 this year. Kaiser Motors is only in limited production for 1954, has made just minor changes in its three-car (Henry J, Kaiser, Aero Willys) line. Packard, which only face-lifted its 1954 cars but boosted horsepower (to 212), has a new V-8 engine in the works and a completely new body on the drawing boards for 1955. But Packard is having its troubles, has stopped producing cars for a week and laid...
...Surgical Spray. A plastic surgical dressing that can be sprayed on wounds was put on sale to physicians by Aeroplast Corp., Dayton. First developed in cooperation with the Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory for mass treatment of burns, such as in an atomic attack, the spray dressing has since been used on all types of wounds. The transparent plastic permits a check without changing the dressing, can be stripped off easily. Price...
Last week a member of the Aero Union broke the prudent silence, suggested that the industry get back to work. Said shrewd, ambitious Ernst Heinkel, once a top bomber-builder: "Germany is too far behind and too poor to attempt developing its own aircraft. But Germany could well play her part in the Western defense program" by making parts (e.g., optical instruments) for Western aircraft...