Word: fairchilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black-browed, snow-haired John Carlton Ward Jr., president of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., is not normally a Gloomy Gus. Generally he is too busy making good his promise to build huge wood-veneer bomber-crew trainers-"the biggest damn airplanes out of wood that anyone ever thought of" (TIME, June 1, 1942). But last week, in his official capacity as president of the East Coast Aircraft War Production Council, 50-year-old Carl Ward caught the headlines with some very Gloomy-Gus talk. Said...
Disgruntled, the Chamber's die-hards lurked on the sidelines. Their most picturesque spokesman was Yale's aging (65) Economics Professor Fred R. Fairchild, who blandly remarked that the U.S. must abandon "grandiose notions of policing, feeding, reconstructing the world," give up "certain parts of the Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms which imply performing, indefinitely, costly services for the rest of the world and doing it for nothing." As the convention ended, the phrase resounding in most ears was neither Fairchild's nor Johnston's. It was Senator George's "fairly constant employment...
...Acoustical tiles absorb sound by trapping sound waves in a mass of small holes. In his Manhattan home, Planebuilder Sherman Fairchild has a large, acoustically designed drawing room in which two pianos can be played at once without a deafening noise...
...officials say that if output of this manufactured lumber were doubled, or tripled, over the record 3½ billion sq. ft. (on a ⅜in. basis) turned out last year, war needs would gobble it up. Beech Aircraft Corp. has already begun production on an all-plywood bomber trainer. Fairchild has been turning out all-plywood primary trainers for some time. Curtiss-Wright is using the same stuff to make twin-engined cargo airplanes...
...beer & skittles for Fairchild. Products of its nuts & bolts empire must be trucked to its assembly lines. And truck tires are scarce. Artisans trained to work in leisurely style with meticulous care will not adjust themselves to wartime manufacturing tempo. Fairchild argues (in vain) for more wood-butchering, for less craftsmanship...