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...Such feedback controls are the forerunner of real automation. Linked together, they will make automated production lines. A form of the new automation is already at work making telephone relays for Western Electric, acetylene gas and carbide for the National Carbide division of Air Reduction Co., aircraft engines at Curtiss-Wright. Other firms, such as American Smelting & Refining, General Mills, Dunlop Tire & Rubber, have turned to automatic controls to produce everything from bronze castings to printed circuits and foam-rubber mattresses. In the oil industry, automation has advanced to the point where a handful of technicians can run an entire...
Profits of airlines and aircraft builders continued to soar. Curtiss-Wright Corp. more than doubled 1953's fourth-quarter earnings, to $7,922,497; American Airlines raised 1953'-fourth-quarter profits...
...Whizzer" by Lockheed, the new ship is a small, relatively simple day fighter designed to win local air superiority over the battlefield. Its weight is only about 14,000 Ibs. combat-loaded v. 18,000 for North American's F-86D, but it packs a hefty Curtiss-Wright J-65 engine, blasting out more than 7,200 Ibs. of thrust. The speed is secret. Officially, the Air Force will say only that the XF-104 is supersonic in level flight...
Most were sailing craft, but for Richard Hoyt, onetime board chairman of Curtiss-Wright, Nevins built the high-powered Teaser, which raced the crack 20th Century Limited from Albany to New York...
...medley relay, they won their 200-yard breast and back stroke events neatly with times of 2:18.6 and 2:18.1. Al Rapperport took third for the varsity in the back stroke, but breast stroker Ralph Zani couldn't squeeze by the Blue's O'Connor and Rich Curtiss...