Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summing up aircraft industry's prodigious wartime growth, Aviation calculated its manufacturing backlog at $8,343,000,000. Biggest was the yule log on Curtiss-Wright's hearth, only $5 million less than a billion. Second largest: Ford Motor Co. (engines, four-motored bombers) with $736 million. Third: Consolidated Aircraft, $725 million...
...Harlem only 70 from a training course of 1400 got jobs. Especially notorious has been the discrimination by both management and A.F. of L. unions in the aircraft industry. Glenn L. Martin with a half billion dollars of defense orders hasn't a single Negro in 18,000 workers. Curtiss-Wright has disproved the familiar and flimsy excuses of other plants by employing a large number of Negroes and finding them more than satisfactory...
...Curtiss-Wright took its old reliable P36 (the British Mohawk), arbitrarily gave its performance a figure of 100%, went on from there. Since the British have announced P-36's performance (323 m.p.h. at 15,100 feet, a service ceiling* of 32,800 feet), any schoolboy could figure what the new P-405 would...
...speed, P-40F figured out at 397 m.p.h. In service ceiling it had 170%, which would put it higher than most pilots could ever fly it. With such a ceiling, the P-40F can fight handily at around 25,000 feet. For its newest fighter Curtiss-Wright changed engines, from the liquid-cooled, U.S.-designed Allison (now 1,150 h.p.) to liquid-cooled, British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin (1,300 h.p.), manufactured by Packard...
...fire power, the figures given by Curtiss-Wright showed vast improvement: 667% of the P36 (which was armed with one .30-caliber and one .50-caliber machine gun). From these figures few laymen could calculate just how many and what kind of guns the new P-40F carries. But anybody could understand the proud claim of P-40Fs builders: their new job is the hardest-hitting fighter in the world...