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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Far and away the toughest airplane pilots on the North American continent are the rakehell Canuck airmen who since the '20s have lugged machinery and prospectors, food and engineers into the vast country north of Canada's twin transcontinental railroads. But Canadian airmen have had no counterpart in...
Because Canadian Associated's job was to organize an industry as well as to parcel out orders, it got as its president not an airplane pilot but a seasoned businessman: aristocratic, 60-year-old Paul Fleetford Sise, onetime overseas infantry officer who had worked for Westinghouse before becoming president...
To the U. S. aircraft industry, Canadian Associated's orders, on the book and in prospect, would be nothing to go into a barrel roll over. (Seven U. S. builders have backlogs of over $20,000,000 each; two, over $60,000,000 each.) But the Canadian industry probably...
Today Canadian aviation's chief problem is to tool its factories, to train workers to get into swift, economical production. In addition to the six companies owning Associated Aircraft, Canada has six lesser independents. But no Canadian plant employs more than 1,500 men (biggest U. S. employer: Martin...
In part this contrast may be due to screwy statistics (the production index is heavily weighted by certain industries), but in large part it represents technological improvements. For if improved machinery increases output per man, it is perfectly possible to have bigger production and bigger unemployment at the same time...