Word: girdler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 1902, a young Lehigh graduate was working in London as sales engineer for the Buffalo Forge Co. His name: Tom Mercer Girdler. His paycheck: $12.50 a week. One day, from Pittsburgh's Oliver Iron & Steel Co., came the offer of another job with a salary of $1,000 a year. Homesick Tom Girdler snapped it up, caught the next ship back to the U.S. "That," he confesses in his just-published autobiography (Boot Straps, written in collaboration with Boyden Sparkes; Scribner; $3), "is how I happened to get into the steel business...
After decades of experiment in many quarters, a simple, practical method of preventing ice formations on plane wings was announced this week by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Heat from exhaust gases does the trick. Said Chairman Tom Girdler: "The Catalina long-range patrol bombers have been in production several months equipped with the radically new thermal anti-icer." He gave credit to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for the original idea and part of its development...
...Stinson one of the best known private-plane makers. Then came Emanuel's big coup: with $11,000,000 cash (two-thirds of it begged & borrowed) his pet Vultee bought into Consolidated. To make sure nothing went wrong, Emanuel tagged tough, dynamic Republic Steel Board Chairman Tom Girdler to run both Vultee and Consolidated...
...under the flamboyant Charlie Schwab. Detroit smothered some of its bitter labor-management rows under an uncataloguable output of tanks, Oerlikons, bombs, shells, time fuses and jeeps. The aircraft industry, drawing on Detroit for engines and parts (and in the case of Consolidated Aircraft on the unreconstructed Tom Girdler for management), turned out an incredible $7.5 billions worth of products-nearly four times the normal output of automobiles in this country...
Married. Tom Mercer Girdler, 65, chairman of Republic Steel Corp., Consolidated and Vultee Aircraft Inc.; and Helen Brennan, 36, his ex-secretary; he for the fourth time, she for the first; five days after his third wife divorced him; in Manhattan...