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...Curtiss-Wright Corporation, one of America's largest manufacturers of airplane equipment, sums up the opportunities for a young engineer in its 1953 brochure: "For the aeronautical research worker and engineer, there is an evergrowing challenge to contribute to the progress of a field firmly established, yet limitless in potentialities. Working daily at the threshhold of the unknown will bring the engineer into many closely related fields. An aircraft increase in size and speed, the role of the engineer and research worker becomes even more important...
...airplane manufacturing corporations, the engineer occupies an esteemed position. Again, Curtiss-Wright's brochure sums up an industry-wide attitude: "The engineer is afforded an exceptional opportunity to work on the more challenging engineering projects of today with the latest and most complete laboratory and testing equipment of its kind in the world, to associate with engineers who are outstanding in their fields, and to gain personal prestige for himself as a professional engineer...
...Curtiss-Wright is one of several companies that have recognized this lack, and the firm is running a two year intensive Management Development Program which puts qualified young men in first level supervisory positions after an initial five to six months training at company expense. Starting salaries at this level are $80 to $90 a week, or just about what the beginning engineer can make. Requirements, however, are much stiffer, as the competition is better. Optimum requirements set by Curtiss-Wright: "must be 21 to 27 years of age, married, a veteran, must have majored in Commerce, Business Administration, Industrial...
...Though Curtiss-Wright has a backlog of almost $1 billion in orders, President Hurley is taking no chances in the feast-or-famine airplane business. A full 30% of his backlog is civilian business, and he is not concentrating on engines alone. Curtiss-Wright is making electronic equipment, textile spindles, windshield wipers, precision clutches, and diesel engine governors. A plastics division makes household gadgets, nylon-molded gears, wheels, and bushings for automobiles. Says Hurley: "Eventually, I would like to match our military business with civilian business, dollar for dollar...
...Leagues. The dollars have been pouring in during the past three years. In 1949, Curtiss-Wright did $128 million worth of business; this year the figure will soar well over $400 million, and profits have more than tripled to $9,000,000. Roy Hurley has another way of figuring his company's economic health. With the new assembly line and better tools, each of the 20,000 workers at Curtiss-Wright's Wood-Ridge plant will turn out $14,000 worth of engines a year. Says Hurley, "That's just about what the auto companies like General...