Word: egtvedt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boeing plant, some 50 miles to the north in Seattle, work was stopped on ten other Stratoliners, three of which have been ordered by Pan American airways. Perplexed, President C. L. Egtvedt of Boeing declared: "It was . . . one of the best we have built. I can't believe the fault lay in the ship itself." Quick to deny that this implied sabotage was Boeing. But the facts remained that the first Stratoliner, carefully built and tested on the ground, had flown about 23 hours in closely supervised engineering tests without sign of structural weakness, that into her building...
...return to the Boeing factory. At present he is a partner in the potent New York Stock Exchange firm of E. A. Pierce & Co. To succeed him in Boeing, the stockholders, no one of whom now owns more than 10% of the stock, chose shy Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, 44, who entered the plant in 1917 as a draftsman...
...Boeing tailspin was not yet over. Following the 247-D came the slick Douglas DC-1, 2 and 3 which immediately became the darlings of most major U. S. airlines. Even United "went Douglas" eventually. But undaunted Claire Egtvedt kept plugging at the military contracts Boeing and its Kansas subsidiary, Stearman Aircraft Co., have never lacked. An engineer pure and simple, President Egtvedt kept Boeing plants small, while others, like Douglas, were overexpanding. He devoted all Boeing's energies to creating a magnificent new bomber - the great 299, now called YB-17. This four-motored monoplane is the most...
...Duwamish Waterway, booming Boeing last week began adding to its 2,000 employes, secretively kept figures to itself, but delightedly announced that its unfilled contracts totted up to the biggest sum in the company's 21-year history. "Henceforth" remarked Claire Egtvedt, "Boeing will build only four-motored jobs...
Supervising designer of the new Boeing is modest Claire Egtvedt, Boeing's $20,000-a-year president. Claire Egtvedt got his taste for flying as a young ski-jumper in Wisconsin, followed it up with a course in aeronautical engineering at the University of Washington's Guggenheim School...