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...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...
...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...
...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...