Word: aerojet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Power Afloat. An inboard marine engine that its makers say delivers more power per pound than any other small marine engine was put on sale by Aerojet-General Corp.. Cincinnati, bossed by former Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. The engine weighs 160 Ibs.. develops 26.5 h.p.. and can push a 20-ft. boat, with four adults, at 30 m.p.h. Price...
Portable Powerhouse. A lightweight (101 Ibs.), four-cylinder, 25½-h.p. gasoline engine, which, its makers claim, packs more power per pound than other water-cooled engines, was put on the market by the Aerojet-General Corp., bossed by former Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. The engine is for industrial, farm and home workshop use. Price...
...Able) Kimball, 57, who resigned as Secretary of the Navy last January, became president of Aerojet-General Corp., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary. No stranger to General Tire, Kimball joined the company after World War I, was executive vice president and general manager of Aerojet Engineering Corp. (which merged with Crosley Motors last March to become Aerojet-General) when he left for Washington...
Tennis Balls to Jets. During the war, General Tire made military equipment ranging from gas masks to barrage balloons; at war's end, it switched to tennis balls, hospital beds, washing-machine tubs and other civilian products. Bill O'Neil then bought control of California's Aerojet Engineering Corp., maker of rockets and Jato (jet-assisted-take-off units) (TIME, Jan. 1, 1951). Last year, he snapped up the West Coast's Don Lee radio network and the Mutual Broadcasting System, biggest in the nation...
...General James H. Doolittle in World War 1. Mustered out as a first lieutenant, moved to California, joined General Tire & Rubber Co. and eventually became General's manager for eleven western states, vice president and director (now on leave); also became executive vice president and general manager of Aerojet Engineering Corp. Has private pilot's license and flies own plane...