Word: fairchild
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Paul B. Freund, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law and Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, professor of Law, were made Doctors of Law; Carl J. Friedrich, John M. Gaus, professors of Government, and Arthur Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of Government received Doctors of Humane Letters degrees...
...Billion Feast. At present, Hurley uses the new line only for the 3,500-h.p. Wright Turbo-Compound piston engine, which powers the Fairchild Packet, Lockheed Super Constellation and Douglas DC-7. But Hurley wants to use it for all Curtiss-Wright's new and secret family of jets and turboprops. There are two new Air Force turboprops, the T47 and T-49, under tight security wraps: both are reported to turn out more than 12,000 h.p. Curtiss-Wright is also testing a jet engine of great power called the J-67, which develops well over...
...order was a double victory for Fairchild and its president, Richard S. Boutelle, 55. It meant that the company's 9,000-man Hagerstown plant could keep running with almost no layoffs, when production of its own twin-tailed C-119 Packets tapers off next year. And it was also the final payoff in Fairchild's long and bitter wrangle with Kaiser, whose subsidiary. Chase Aircraft, had designed the C-123. The trouble started soon after Korea, when the Air Force farmed out an order for 159 of Fairchild's Cng cargo planes to Kaiser...
President Dick Boutelle, a plain-talking, shirtsleeve executive who moved up from plant boss in 1949, has plenty of other products to keep him hustling. He still has a big backlog of Air Force C-ngs, and three Fairchild plants on Long Island are busy making everything from components for J47 turbojet engines to Fairchild's own J44 turbojet to power the Firebee robot target plane. Fairchild is also 1) working on a new, 25-ton pocket submarine, and 2) experimenting with a small lightweight earthmover that can be carried...
With the new order for Chase Avitrucs, Fairchild's backlog has zoomed to nearly $600 million. Last year the company grossed $141,642,703, and its $3,148,621 profit was the highest ever...