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...golden cord. His shoestring was the one-man Los Angeles machine shop which he started in 1913. Born in Latvia, Harvey had learned the machinist's trade in Germany before coming to the U.S. at 20. His shop prospered with World War I orders for parts for the Curtiss "Jenny," afterward, did a tidy business machining brass and aluminum parts. World War II's demand for aluminum plane parts spread his company over four small plants. At war's end, when the $8,000,000 Bohn Aluminum & Brass war plant at Torrance, Calif, became surplus, he snatched...
...committee's top ten as of June 1: General Motors Corp., $3.5 billion in defense contracts; Ford Motor Co., $1 billion; Boeing Airplane Co., $960 million; Curtiss-Wright Corp., $840 million; Lockheed Aircraft Corp., $674 million; Republic Aviation Corp., $549 million; General Electric Co., $500 million; United Aircraft Corp., $490 million; North American Aviation, $481 million; Bendix Aviation Corp., $475 million...
Everytime he saw a mountain, Air Force Reserve Lieut. John Hodgkin was seized by an overwhelming urge to land an airplane on it. It had been tough when he was a boy-his wheezy, old Curtiss-Wright pusher with its 45-h.p. engine was no match for the Sierra Nevadas towering over his home in Selma, Calif...
...Squeezed Blades. Curtiss-Wright Corp. has developed a method to squeeze out airplane propeller blades like toothpaste by forcing red-hot alloy steel through dies under enormous pressure. By saving 40% of the man-hours formerly used in machining and finishing, Curtiss-Wright says that one of its giant presses can now turn out three times as many blades a day as the entire aircraft industry did daily during World...
Gradually, the planes improved. Ford's famed Tri-Motor appeared with a cabin with room for 16. In 1929 came the crate-like, twin-engine Curtiss Condor, a 21-place goliath, followed in a few years by Douglas' famed...