Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hulking building with the pink neon sign-it might have been a sports arena, a warehouse or a hangar for tomorrow's giant rocket bomber-stood in the greyer part of grey Philadelphia. Along its long corridors and empty galleries, janitors toiled glumly amid drifts of paper cups, candy wrappers, newspapers and stale buns. As a band blurted out the first brassy music of the morning, the great main floor was only half filled...
Elisha Otis' original safety catch has been succeeded by scores of automatic speed and leveling controls. Until 1945, Otis boasted that not one of its passenger elevators had ever fallen because of broken cables. That year an Army bomber, bursting through the Empire State Building between the 78th and 79th floors, severed the cables and all the safety devices on one Otis elevator, which plummeted to the subbasement. Even so, the operator (who was alone) got out alive...
...biggest chunk-upwards of $200 million-went to Boeing, which got the bulk of the bomber orders. Orders for 162 more of its huge B50 Superforts will bring its total backlog close to $500 million. Expanding to get out the planes, Boeing had reopened its vast Wichita plant No. 2; and housewives and farmers were going back to their wartime jobs to help modernize B-29s and make B50 parts...
Next in line was North American, with orders for 768 jet fighters, trainers and bombers. North American, which recently leased the million-square-foot Vultee plant at Downey, Calif., would now have a $400 million backlog to work on. So far, it has turned out only five of its F-86 swept-back-wing fighters (see SCIENCE), but it hopes to produce them soon at a good clip. A production line has already been set up for the B-45, a four-jet medium bomber...
...second to be built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. (the first has been undergoing test flights since last October). A queer, tailless bird, the YB-49 is powered by eight jet engines, with a thrust roughly equivalent to 32,000 h.p., making it the most powerful bomber in the world and one of the fastest...