Word: allison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allison engine used by U. S. Army to power some of its fastest new airplanes indicates a trend towards...
...National Guild and its tournament were the bright ideas of a slow-spoken, quick-thinking Texas music teacher named Irl Allison, who started the whole thing on a shoestring in 1929. Touring the land to sign up piano teachers for the Guild, Mr. Allison was once down to his last 7?. Today 2,000 members pay $3-a-year dues to the Guild, and Mr. Allison is permanent president. Guild members get their names in an annual directory, their pupils in the Auditions, which this year brought in some $15,000 in entrance fees, cost $4,000 in judges...
More than nominally interested in aviation is the biggest U. S. motormaker: General Motors Corp. Holder of 30% of the outstanding stock of North American Aviation, Inc. (military planes) and 19% of Bendix Aviation Corp. (aircraft accessories), it is also sole proprietor of the big Allison plant, where G. M. engineers are working with might & main to get the U. S. Air Corps's only liquid-cooled aircraft engine into mass production...
...Pratt & Whitney engines) already has gone some $5,000,000 in French money, an outright grant for building new plant capacity. Last week close-mouthed Arthur Purvis announced that more plant money was going to the engine builders, not only Wright Aeronautical and Pratt & Whitney but General Motors' Allison division. With such help, production of the big (and only) three highpowered engine builders should by year's end hit an annual productive rate of around 30,000 (present rate...
...soon noised about. To Douglas went the big slice: $75,000,000 for 750 attack-bombers. Curtiss got around $57,000,000 for 1,500 new pursuits. Bell $18,000,000 for 200 Airacobras. To the three engine builders went some $52,000,000, most ($34,000,000) to Allison, already busy with expansion of its Indianapolis plant and making some parts (e. g., crank and camshafts) in G. M.'s Cadillac factory. Among plants in line for next orders: Martin, Lockheed (reported expecting $125,000,000 for pursuits and bombers), possibly Grumman and Consolidated, which makes flying boats...