Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighters. And the U.S. services are betting that the R.A.F. is wrong, as it was only a few years ago on heavy bombers. So there is more doing in the U.S. dive-bombing field than the conversion of fighters to double duty. To supersede the SBD, both Douglas and Curtiss are building specialized dive-bombring aircraft, with less speed than fighters, but more range, more load. And over areas where U.S. seamen or soldiers fight, dive-bombers will still come howling down...
...last week six top aircraft executives of the East-including Guy Vaughan of Curtiss-Wright, Glenn Martin of Martin, Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft-packed their bags and entrained for California. They went West to meet Pacific Coast producers and set up a new National Air craft War Production Council. Aim: to help cut production red tape for the whole airplane industry...
...strummed his way through without scholarly distinction, but with plenty of friends and a new nickname, Tooey. He caught a glimpse one day of Glenn Curtiss making his record-breaking flight from Albany to New York. That day Tooey had a glimpse of his own career. The army, he figured, was at least the place where he could learn...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp., frankly out to get young mothers as war workers, is willing to sit with the baby. Last week it was doubling the size of the well-equipped, well-run nursery school on its Buffalo plane-factory grounds. Mothers working at Curtiss-Wright were more pleased than welfare authorities...
Each morning company guards pluck children from mothers' sides as they pass the plant gates. Eight and a half hours daily the moppets play, snooze, ingest assorted vitamins, watch test planes zoom by. Mothers pay 50? a day for food, Curtiss-Wright pays the overhead. Beamed one mother recently: "It's marvelous for Terry.. He eats his squash and tomato now without trouble and can even tie his shoes...