Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the Truman Committee swung a critical haymaker at inspection methods at Curtiss-Wright Corp. (TIME, July 26), the U.S. aviation industry has buzzed with one shocking fact, a skyful of fantastic rumors...
...some of the new facts, Curtiss' dapper president, Guy Warner Vaughan, was hard put to find answers. He admitted to the Committee that he had not been aware of many of the faults which the investigators had spaded up at Lockland, that "we weren't doing a job in some respects." He felt the production slump was caused by the reorganization the plant, was undergoing to eliminate the bad spots...
Married. Alice Barr Dollar, 52, granddaughter of "Captain" Robert Dollar, San Francisco's rags-to-riches shipowner; and Curtiss Hayden, 25, salesman; in Manhattan...
Airlines publicity men ballyhooed the event, without making the obvious point that such transportation, while necessary, is uneconomical by modern (but strictly military) aircraft standards. But airmen agreed that American had something, anyhow. At war's end, the airlines will get plenty of planes (like the new Curtiss Commando and the four-motored Douglas C-54) which are now doing a reasonably economical job of lugging cargo for the armed services. Meanwhile American's men will get freighting experience...
Counter-Blow. Dapper Guy Warner Vaughan, ex-automobile racer who heads giant Curtiss-Wright, answered Truman's attacks: "The P-40 has been continuously modernized, [has] shot down from three to 20 enemy planes for every P-40 lost. . . . The company emphatically denies that Wright has at any time sold products known to the company to have contained defective or substandard parts...