Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign departments of Standard Oil of New Jersey and Shell Oil got on the wire, each offering to build a chain of super-service stations, hotels and numerous motels, along the drowsy highways of the islands...
Lose a Million. With some of his cash, he decided to go into the aviation business. It was not a whim: he had faith in its money-making future. He formed the Viking Flying Boat Co. to build sport-model seaplanes. The depression wiped out the market for seaplanes, along with most of Gross's million. He went to the West Coast to work for an airline. Gross was mightily impressed by the line's fast, sleek plywood Orions. They were made by Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead...
...pick up one of Bob Gross's fumbles. For example, when the prototype of one of their planes was ready to fly, the engineers estimated that it would take at least seven months to make enough blueprints to get the plane into production. Bob argued: "If you can build one plane from these drawings, why can't you build 50 from them? Let's do it." A few weeks later, plane production was so snarled up from lack of blueprints that a hurry-up call was sent for Court. When he heard what had happened, he just...
...Gross who got Lockheed to perform something like production miracles because he could airily wave away engineers who said that miracles couldn't be done. Back in 1942, he cannily realized that the jet plane was just over the horizon. The Army turned down his offer to build one, figuring that it would be developed too late for World War II. Gross ordered development work, anyhow...
...same way, Bob Gross took on the job of building the Constellation. Howard Hughes and T.W.A. President Jack Frye wanted a transport plane which would fly farther, faster and carry a bigger load than anything in the air. When Consolidated Aircraft turned down the job, Lockheed accepted it. Then the Army ordered Lockheed to build it for the Air Forces; T.W.A. would have to wait. Thus, when the Army canceled its contracts after V-J day, Lockheed had the plane ready for the airlines...