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...winter sports. International Business Machines Corp. has three country clubs for its workers, charges membership fees of $1 a year for employees, $1 for wives (or husbands), and 25-50? for each child. Detroit Edison Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California provide yacht clubs. The employee-run Convair Recreation Association owns a 125-acre ranch and a rodeo arena. At least five Atlanta firms have built private parks for their employees at nearby Allatoona Lake...
...photographer snapped away, the plane's bow gaped open like the mouth of a giant whale, revealing an enormous cavern for cargo. The So-ton craft, pictures of which were released last week, was the R3Y-2 "Flying LST," built for beach-assault operations by General Dynamics' Convair division. To pull away from a beach or dock the pilot,simply reverses propellers; the ship needs a run of only 30 seconds to take...
Powered by four Allison T40 turboprop engines developing a total 22,000 h.p., Convair's Flying LST is expected to cruise at better than 350 m.p.h., have a range of more than 2,000 miles, and climb faster than some World War II fighter planes. It can carry a cargo load of 24 tons, equivalent to four 155-mm. howitzers, three 2½-ton trucks, six jeeps and two half-tracks. As a transport, it can pack in 150 fully equipped troops...
...Consolidated Vultee's huge Fort Worth plant last week, a quiet ceremony hailed the last of a long line of famed warbirds. Out rolled the final production model of Convair's ten-engined B-36 bomber, the postwar workhorse of the U.S. Strategic Air Command. In all, something like 400 had been made...
...Convair tried to turn the piston-engined B-36 design into a pure jet by sweeping back the wings, slinging eight jet engines underneath. But in competition, Convair's XB-60 lost out to Boeing's all-new, 600-m.p.h. B-52. With Boeing's B-52 jet bombers now in production (TIME, July 19), the old B-36s have seen their day, will gradually be retired to a secondary role by S.A.C. Now Convair is busily at work on its own all-jet bomber, the XB-58 Hustler. The secret new plane will be a heavy...