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...this year. The Defense Department, gambling that Russia will not be ready to attack until 1953, concentrated on getting the plane manufacturers to expand their plants and get ready for a big jump in production if needed in two years. For example, Northrop Aircraft, loaded with a $300 million backlog chiefly to produce the Air Force's Scorpion F89 all-weather interceptor, had rearranged its plant "to create more efficient flow lines," had thus channeled men and materials away from current production. In Santa Monica, Douglas Aircraft plucked skilled supervisors from its assembly lines, shipped them and a batch...
...copters since 1945, has sunk $12 million into research and development. Bell tried to tap the commercial market for helicopters as executive transports, crop-dusters, mail-carriers, etc., but lost money. At $23,500 a ship, there were not enough buyers. The company now has a $75 million military backlog, is developing the tandem-rotored experimental XHSL-i helicopter. The Navy wants to equip it with radar, use it to hunt submarines...
...help clarify the present by examining the past," the MARCH of TIME dipped this week into a 16-year backlog of M.O.T. films to put on a 26-week TV series called March of Time Through the Years. Cooperatively sponsored by leading U.S. banks, the show is telecast in Manhattan by station WJZ-TV (Fri. 10 p.m.) and at varying times and days in other cities...
...backlog of packages that has piled up since the rail strike began last week will be cleared Monday, the Harvard Square Post Office announced last night. The local station received permission to accept and send parcel post shipments yesterday...
Rocket Oil Drills. Last week, with a $25 million backlog bulging its pocket, Aerojet announced that its $10 million plant at Azusa (almost completely paid for) was not big enough. It bought 7,200 acres 16 miles east of Sacramento to build a new $6,000,000 plant. Much of Aerojet's experimental work is secret but, among other things, it is working on 1) rocket units for underwater propulsion, 2) rocket-propelled missiles, and 3) a rocket-powered oil drill...