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Profits of four leading aircraft manufacturers (Curtiss-Wright, Douglas, Consolidated and Lockheed) stood over 900% higher in 1941 than in the base period of 1936-39, and profits of New York Shipbuilding stood 2,420% higher...
...hour is the purpose of a new $2,100,000 wind tunnel now under construction at Pasadena by the California Institute of Technology. The tunnel was financed by four members of the Aircraft War Production Council: Consolidated, Douglas, Lockheed, North American. An identical air tunnel is being built by Curtiss-Wright at Buffalo...
Simultaneously with this release the Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Corporation announced its decision to participate in the new program...
Although battleships suffered most, cruisers did not escape. The Honolulu, Helena and Raleigh were disabled. So were other vessels: the 8,100-ton repair ship Vestal, the new 8,625-ton seaplane tender Curtiss. The minelayer Oglala, with the destroyers Shaw, Cassin and Downes and the target ship Utah (a retired battleship) were reported lost in Secretary Knox's report...
Three months ago Buzz got his chance. Returned from New Guinea, he was assigned as an engineering expert to the Curtiss-Wright (P-40) plant, was sent around the U.S. several times to talk to the men who draw plans for U.S. planes. One of his stops was Wright Field, No. 1 U.S. airplane laboratory. There a noted engineer put the finest stamp on the fine career of Buzz Wagner. "During the two weeks Colonel Wagner was here," he said, "we learned more about what was needed in the way of certain airplanes than we learned in the previous year...