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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...
...fast-moving aviation business, Breech is a sprinter. Son of an Ozark blacksmith, he took up accounting, in 1921 won a gold medal for top grades in Illinois State CPA exams. Breech's first real job was auditor for Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse & Co. Six years later he joined Yellow Truck & Coach. When G.M. took over Yellow in 1925, Breech went along as bookkeeper. In 1939 he was a G.M. vice president...
Meanwhile he got the aviation bug, began hanging around airports craning his neck at planes. By 1931 he was a T.W.A. director; by 1933 an officer or director of Western Air Express, Eastern Air Lines, Pan American Airways. Then G.M. made Breech head of wobbly North American Aviation (29.1% G.M.-controlled), told him to boost production and do it fast. Breech did: North American's sales last year were about $100,000,000 against...
According to Ernest R. Breech, who is Board Chairman of North American Aviation, Inc., we will need a standing airforce of about 24,000 military planes after the next armistice is signed,-and that means even if the U. S. takes an important role in policing the world. If you allow for a replacement demand of 6,000 planes a year, this will still only give employment to about 100,000 men- or less than 20 per cent of the number that will be working in aircraft production by 1944. That leaves a fat remainder of 400,000 or more...
...great advantage of brass casings is that, at detonation, they quickly heat up, expand, seal the gun breech; then they quickly cool, shrink, can easily be ejected. Steel has a slower heat conductivity, a lesser coefficient of expansion, which can probably be somewhat overcome by crafty alloying...