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...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...
...Republic Steel's Tom Girdler...
...Lone Wolf. The first to mobilize was Tom Girdler. His career of devil-may-care unpopularity had come to a climax in a 1940 Roosevelt campaign speech, when the President used his name as a synonym for enemy-of-the-people. Shortly thereafter Girdler put out feelers to Washington and decided to quit fighting C.I.O. That was now kid stuff; the big leaguers were fighting Hitler...
Where Emanuel's control of this $1,000,000,000 backlog stops and Girdler's begins is not a matter for statistical analysis. Emanuel's Aviation Corp. owns 71% of Vultee common, which owns 34% of Consolidated. But Girdler (who holds only 2,000 of the 5,780,000 outstanding shares of Aviation Corp.) is executive head of both. Vultee Chairman Harry Woodhead becomes president of Consolidated and executive vice president of Vultee. Vultee President Richard Millar retains his present job, also becomes executive vice president of Consolidated. Both are Girdler appointees...