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...Theodore Paul Wright, 55, president of the Cornell Research Foundation and the university's Aeronautical Laboratory, onetime vice president of the Curtiss-Wright Corp., was named acting president of Cornell, to succeed Acting President Cornelis W. de Kiewiet, now president of the University of Rochester...
American took over the Navy's big (1,400,000 sq. ft.) reserve aircraft plant at Columbus, Ohio, which Curtiss-Wright Corp. had been using to make parts and modify planes. North American thus boosted its plane-building space by one-third, the biggest single expansion in the industry since the Korean war began. (Curtiss-Wright will give up airframe building and concentrate on engines...
...bigger orders for its C124 transports for the Air Force and its Navy F-3-D fighters and AD attack bombers; Lockheed (backlog: $225 million) for its jet-powered F94 Air Force Penetration fighters; Grumman (backlog: $144 million) for its F-9-F Navy jet fighters. Pratt & Whitney, Curtiss-Wright and General Motors' Allison Division were all souping up engine assemblies...
...singled out the chief from among his sleeping comrades, and with one fierce thrust, sent his cutlass directly through his body, and with such force, that the keen weapon was deeply sunk in the floor." The climax of The Signal; or, The King of the Blue Isle, by E. Curtiss Hine, was at hand. When Delano had finished his bloody work, "three hundred corpses lay strewn about the room...
...military orders: about $75 million.) To help get the company squarely back on its feet, aging (64) President Glenn Martin moved himself up as chairman and brought in 43-year-old C. C. (for Chester Charles) Pearson, a onetime executive of Douglas Aircraft and a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, as his successor. With a sharp eye on overhead, Pearson sold off Martin's sidelines and managed to pay off all but $3,000,000 of the RFC loan...