Word: girdler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Beach he visited the Douglas aircraft plant. In San Diego he rode through the streets so often-on his way to Tom Girdler's Consolidated Aircraft plant, to the Navy's Camp Pendleton, to the home of Son John Roosevelt-that the whole city turned out to watch. One rumor had it that General Douglas MacArthur, in mufti, was a member of his party...
...proud of his achievement as if he had just created Man was Consolidated's new board chairman, roundheaded, profane Steelman Tom Girdler. Tom Girdler, who took over Consolidated two weeks after Pearl Harbor, had two great plants at San Diego. The parts plant makes Consolidated's bits & pieces, from engines down to tiny hydraulic pumps. In the assembly plant they grow into planes-the famed B-24 with more than 3,000-mile range, its four-ton bomb load; the long-range, hard-working PBY-5 flying boat; the massive, four-motored PB2Y2, whose range and bomb load...
Well might Tom Girdler be proud. Mass-producing bombers is as much more complicated than building autos as the growth of the human body is more complex than the growth of an amoeba. The average car has 15,000 parts. The bomber that rolled off Consolidated's line last week had 101,650 parts, laced together by more than 400,000 rivets...
...Girdler had set the first bomber assembly line in motion-no mean feat even for a company rich in aircraft experience. Detroit will draw on his experience. Its feat will be that, having started from scratch a few months ago, it will soon duplicate and reduplicate the deeds of the aircraft industry-if-the Great If-the U.S. maintains a steady flow of materials into the enormous rooms...
...Republic Steel's Tom Girdler...