Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cessna Aircraft in Kansas women saw, sand, nail and glue wood; sew, stretch on and dope the covering fabric; install the instrument board and radio...
Tough-minded Walter Hershel Beech, 48, looks like an oversized Bing Crosby. He never got through the seventh grade but has an amazing knack for machinery and aerodynamics. After five years in the Army Air Corps (1917-21), he joined Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna (both of whom later formed their own companies), started Wichita's Travel Air Co. to make small planes. Travel Air boomed with the air craze of the Twenties...
...cheaper, non-automatic direction finder for use in private planes. In 1939, Lear Avia lost $15,000 on a $222,000 volume. Said Lear then: "I'd give my life for $55,000." Just out of a Miami hospital (result of a crackup in his new Cessna), he values his life more now. Last week he estimated Lear Avia's 1940 earnings: in excess of $100,000 on sales of $968,000. And sales are no longer a problem. His $5,000,000 backlog includes South American, Norwegian and Canadian orders. To help fill them Lear...