Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great airmail purge was a disaster for Boeing. Under the law, United Aircraft & Transport had to split into three independent companies-United Air Lines, United Aircraft Corp.,† to make propellers, engines and planes, and Boeing Airplane Co. Says Allen: "We came out of it with less than $1,000,000 in liquid assets. We were still building the rest of an order for 136 P-26s for the Army, but that was it." Bill Boeing disgustedly sold out his interests and retired. Phil Johnson, who by then was head of the parent United Aircraft & Transport organization, was "exiled" from...
...Flying Fortress. Beall and Wells put in bigger, goo-h.p. engines with turbo-superchargers, so that the Fort could operate at 38,000 ft. When World War II came along, Boeing was ready. Phil Johnson came back from his Canadian exile in 1939 to run the show. Bill Allen worked out production contracts. Wellwood Beall started the production lines humming. A year later, Boeing was in mass production. Orders were coming in so fast that Douglas and Lockheed also had to tool up to produce Boeing planes...
...When LeMay first flew Boeing's B-52, Allen asked him anxiously what he thought. LeMay's good-natured complaint: "The seats are too hard.") How many Boeing will build is secret, but the Air Force promises that there will be enough for at least seven of LeMay's SAC wings. The number: 200 or more...
...lives up to its promise, Bill Allen and his Boeing team will have another winner. But they will not ease up on the throttle. Last March, when Air Force Chief of Staff General Twining flew to Seattle for the roll-out of the first-production B-52A, he turned to Allen just before the big plane poked its nose through the hangar doors. Said Twining: "The minute that airplane rolls out -forget it. Do what you have in the past. Start thinking about the next one, a better one, a bigger one, a faster one." Bill Allen's answer...
...aircraft. In Boeing's top-secret electronics laboratory, others are busy with a $200 million development and production contract for Boeing's F99 "Bomarc," a pilotless interceptor plane to send after bombers. It is in the secret missiles that Boeing sees the aircraft of the future. Bill Allen and Wellwood Beall are convinced that the airplane and the missile are growing ever closer, will eventually become one and the same. When that day comes, Boeing's Allen will be ready, as before, to plunk down Boeing's bankroll to back the aircraft its engineers build. Allen...