Word: damons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick Foran, who is a bit too faithful to his part. Faning Virginia Bruce fades in and out occasionally. The picture is a little too long, its plot a trifle illogical, but its dialogue can't always get away from the fact that it was adapted from Damon Runyan, and is consequently good. If the omission of the "Harvard Blues" is considered an unpardonable sin, it is the only blight on a good evening's entertainment...
...they picked (reputedly at the Army's suggestion) was a crack production man named Ralph Shepard Damon, who once bossed Curtiss-Wright's factory at St. Louis. Relaxed, good-humored Ralph Damon was vice president of American Airlines, had already played the biggest part in piling up a crack operations record for the U.S.'s biggest air transportation company. To get Damon, Republic had to promise to give him back to American when peace came. But as long as war lasts, 44-year-old Ralph Damon will turn out Thunderbolts like an equable Vulcan who wastes...
Meanwhile the Army, screaming for more ships, decided it would dig up a production man for Republic. The man: energetic Ralph Shepard Damon, 44, whose five years as American Airlines operations vice president were preceded by two decades of aircraft designing and building, mostly with Curtiss-Wright. Damon became president last May; Kellett moved up to chairman (and finance-watcher...
Production-smart Ralph Damon, working 16 to 18 hours a day, soon had the Republic plant roaring full throttle. Employment is now a record 3,500 (Jan. 1: 2,600), and 100-200 men are being added weekly. By delivering scores of fast, reliable P43 pursuits, Republic made enough money in July and August to erase a $319,000 first six months loss. There is even talk of a common-stock dividend, first in Republic history...
...took Damon's production shake-up to reawaken interest in Republic. Its prize plane, the high-flying Thunderbolt (P-47) had already won it a plump Army order (total: $56,500,000, some of which was ticketed for P-43s). But last week not a single Thunderbolt (except the "mock-up") had yet been delivered. Few weeks ago Major General "Hap" Arnold, Air Forces chief, dropped in at the Farmingdale, L.I. plant. He was so impressed by what he saw that the Army more than doubled Republic's backlog (to around...