Word: grummans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Healthy Hellcats. In the sick aircraft industry, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. was hale & hearty. Grumman, whose wartime Hellcat and Avenger designs and production earned it fat postwar Navy orders, declared a $1.50 dividend, bringing its 1947 total...
...trend toward new materials and new construction methods was best shown in small boats. On hand were: unsinkable aluminum "Air Skiff" dinghies made by Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. (price: $250 & up); Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.'s new aluminum dinghy, along with its older aluminum canoe; magnesium rowboats of the Dow Chemical...
While other planemakers raced to produce cheaper planes for a wider market, soft-spoken Leroy Grumman galloped off in the other direction. This week his Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. announced its postwar commercial model, the Mallard, an eight-to-ten-passenger amphibian with lush-plush custom-tailored interior. Price: $100,000 & up (depending on the interior arrangement selected...
...plane was built for well-heeled businessmen and corporation executives who want to go anywhere, any time at 180 m.p.h. Other possible buyers: sportsman pilots, newspapers, which have already shown an interest in Mallards with built-in darkrooms, the Navy and Coast Guard, long Grumman's best customers...
...Lombardo, Gibraltar of the dance bandsmen, became an airline operator for Manhattan commuters, promised that his Long Island Airlines (4 Grumman Widgeons) would run 19 round trips a day for the hurried & well-heeled, beginning next week...