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...Aircraft was making ends meet by subcontracting for other manufacturers; but by the time the Air Corps had bought 13 Airacudas, Larry Bell could see the Airacobra and a real manufacturing future ahead. Last week on Bell's books were Air Corps orders for 93 Airacobras, and its backlog stood at $7,400,000. And if the P39 should be released for export, Larry Bell could see more business ahead than he dreamed of a year ago. Last week the industry was abuzz with a report that a French mission was negotiating for as many Airacobras as Larry Bell...
Last week President Donald Lamont Brown of United Aircraft Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, could have been expected to pinch himself as he looked over the production report of his engine division. Sawing away at a backlog of something like $100,000,000 (United's total backlog: above $115,000,000), Pratt & Whitney has hit the high point of its production history, above 350* engines a month, more than double its average for 1938. This production will be doubled when the new plant reaches its capacity next spring...
Kollsman Instrument Co. employed more than 400 men in its Elmhurst, N. Y. plant and its Glendale, Calif, branch factory, acquired a one-year backlog of instrument orders for outfitting new planes, received royalties on Kollsman's 200 patents. But no outsider really knew what it was worth until last week, when Paul Kollsman sold out to Square D Co. (maker of electric switches and control equipment, particularly an automatic circuit breaker cheap enough to be used in houses in place of fuse boxes...
...North American Aviation announced record earnings of $1.47 a share, up $1.17 from 1938; a little later it got a $20,000,000 British order that virtually doubled its backlog. But North American shares marked time between...
Kaufman traveled to the Times, where for the next 13 years-years that made him wealthy and famous-he remained, at a very unimportant salary, as dramatic editor. To a worrisome man who never felt secure, the job was a backlog; to an easily bored one, it was an excuse for leaving dull dinner-parties early. As dramatic editor, Kaufman left his mark. Before his time, Manhattan's dramatic pages were stodgy affairs, choked with publicity handouts. Kaufman tabooed these "dog stories," brought a light touch-which has become standard-to the writing of copy. When an underling became...