Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deposed six weeks ago as president of Seversky Aircraft Corp., volatile, hard-flying Major Alexander Procofieff de Seversky was kept on the payroll, last week was in Paris trying to sell airplanes. Meanwhile, the Seversky board, with six years of deficits behind it, met in Manhattan...
...midst of 1939's war-scared aircraft manufacturing boom, Glenn Martin remains, as usual, priestlike and detached. To his office he goes every morning, hurling along in a 16-cylinder, seven-passenger Cadillac ("they cruise better when they're big") at speeds that make motorcycle policemen wince. But they make no arrests for Martin is the second largest employer of labor in the Baltimore industrial area. (The largest: Bethlehem Steel...
...During the morning he drops in at the engineering building, where 460 engineers and draftsmen are at work, to peer at blueprints and drawings. Sometimes he goes through the plant, where 6,000 mechanics turn out his ships in a method as nearly resembling straight-line production as fee aircraft industry has yet approximated. But Glenn Martin does not tinker with airplanes any more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office he is as unruffled and immaculate as before. A fussy dresser, he goes in for double-breasted suits in sturdy fabrics, insists that...
Sitting at home, Glenn Martin goes over airplane plans, thinks about plant expansions, reads technical papers on aircraft design in which he tries to keep up in his spare time. He seldom goes out, dislikes social functions, steers clear of parties and tries to keep at work. When he feels overworked, which sometimes happens after a hard day, he takes a turn around the block and goes...
That they also enable panicked noncombatants to identify low-flying raiders, and even bombers in the middle military altitudes, is of no great military importance. Defending anti-aircraft crews identify friendly and enemy planes by their distinctive silhouettes, and to them wing and tail markings are only confirming evidence that approaching ships should be fired on or allowed...