Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curtiss-Wright Corp., once the biggest U.S. aircraft company, a new war began when peace came. It seemed to be a losing battle from the start. With 16 of its 19 plants shut down, Curtiss-Wright began losing out on orders from the Air Force. It also got little business from civilian customers. It still had $100 million in cash, but President Guy W. Vaughan was saving it for a rainy...
...Copilot. After 13 years as boss of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Guy W. Vaughan, 64, shifted some of the load to younger shoulders. As oldtime airman Vaughan moved to board chairman, William C. Jordan, 50, onetime vice president and general manager of Steel Products Engineering Co., became president. Vaughan hired Jordan away after the war, and groomed him for his new job by making him general manager of the Curtiss-Wright airplane division and later vice president and general manager of Wright Aeronautical, the engine-building division...
...left Seattle's Broadway High School after three years to drive a laundry truck. During World War I he joined the Navy, was sent to Killingholme, England as a machinist's mate, and flew over the North Sea in lumbering Curtiss flying boats on anti-Zeppelin patrols. Travel fanned his ambition...
...still a first-class breed bull, still valued at $25,000, Swanky Dan was slowing up in the show ring. Last week, rather than risk his undefeated record, the Curtiss Candy Co., his owner, decided to retire him from exhibition, settled him on the Curtiss breeding farm at Gary...
...other big manufacturer of piston engines, Curtiss-Wright Corp., is making a hybrid (for the Navy) on a different plan. Its Turbo-Cyclone 18 is a regular, 18-cylinder piston engine whose exhaust drives three turbines geared directly to the crankshaft. The energy recovered gives the engine more horsepower with over 15% more fuel economy...