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...45th birthday last week, zestful, movie-handsome Ernest Robert Breech got the grandest birthday present of his life: the presidency of crucial Bendix Aviation Corp., a 19%-controlled General Motors affiliate. To take the job, Breech quit as G.M. vice president in charge of household appliances and aviation. At Bendix, Founder Vincent Bendix, 60, moved upstairs to board chairman...
Established as G.M.'s most dollar-conscious aviation troubleshooter, Breech was a natural for the Bendix berth. Bendix Aviation manufactures a full line of delicate aviation instruments, hundreds of electrical gadgets, generators, carburetors, braking systems, etc. All these are 100% war items. But Bendix suffers from growing pains, has not expanded as fast as other munitions makers. Sales last year were $156,000,000, four times 1937, but still not big enough to supply 1942's war needs...
Like a little boy showing off his birthday train, Breech last week promised: ". . . [Bendix] production in 1942 of approximately $500,000,000 and for 1943 . . . more than...
Woman of the Year (Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Dan Tobin, William Bendix; TIME...
Woman of the Year (Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Dan Tobin, William Bendix; TIME...