Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curtiss-Wright Corp., once the biggest U.S. aircraft company, a new war began when peace came. It seemed to be a losing battle from the start. With 16 of its 19 plants shut down, Curtiss-Wright began losing out on orders from the Air Force. It also got little business from civilian customers. It still had $100 million in cash, but President Guy W. Vaughan was saving it for a rainy...
...Deal. Out went Air-Frame Builder Burdette S. Wright and Engine Builder William D. Kennedy, both Curtiss-Wright vice presidents of long standing. In came a high-powered slate of directors. Among them...
...John A. McCone, who helped write the Finletter report on U.S. air power. He is president of the Joshua Hendy Iron Works and the California Shipbuilding Corp. (Calship), which built Victory and Liberty ships (TIME, March...
...cutting out free meals, Western Air Lines cut plane fares 5% last week. Other lines planned more drastic rate reductions. Northeast Airlines hopes soon to sell all unreserved and "no-show" seats at ⅓ discount. Pan American Airways, which had cut fares 44% with its coach service to Puerto Rico, will introduce a similar service to Buenos Aires in a month. Pan Am's coach passengers will travel 52 to a DC-4 (as against the first class 30), and get only simple meals. But they will pay $169.50 less than the present New York-Buenos Aires round-trip...
...last week, a motorist pulled up to the curb in front of the Colorado State Bank. He rolled down his window, and began talking to what looked like a grey steel mailbox at the curb. It was no mailbox, but a "snorkel" (so called after the German submarine air intake) for curbstone banking...