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Despite occasional setbacks - flings with snowmobiles and minibikes in the early '70s skidded in red ink - Coleman does not hesitate to take on the big boys, even in their specialties. For example, the company has made impressive headway against Thermos (coolers) and Grumman (canoes). When Coleman engineers learned how to make seamless plastic coolers and jugs, the company almost immediately challenged the industry leaders in the growing field...
...mass transit crisis defies quick solution. One reason: a serious shortage of capacity to build new equipment. Of the 16 firms that made big buses four decades ago, only four are left, and of them only two- Grumman Flexible and General Motors- are making city buses. Their combined output is fewer than 3,000 a year. Hence the U.S., which will need at least 36,000 new buses during the next four years, will have to turn to foreign manufacturers...
Several of the largest American contractors, notably Textron's Bell Helicopter Division, Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing, are protected from big losses by the standard U.S. guarantees for arms sales. But other companies involved in civilian projects have no recourse, except to Iranian courts. For example, Brown & Root, the Texas-based construction company, whose $1.2 billion contract to build a naval base was canceled, has made little progress in persuading the Iranians to settle on termination damages. Fluor had completed 95% of a refinery near Isfahan before the revolution made further work too hazardous and is insisting upon back payments...
...money," complains Tom Evans of the oil-rich Arab sheiks whose sumptuous private planes are serviced by his Houston-based firm. One of his customers is Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, president of the United Arab Emirates, who paid $10 million in 1974 for a Grumman Gulfstream II, equipped with royal blue morocco-leather seats and gold seat-belt buckles...
...theology and philosophy; he was a military expert, having served Stateside in the Marines during World War I. He was also a skilled pilot who had flown with Charles Lindbergh in the Missouri National Guard. During World War II, Alex used to relax on weekends by test-piloting Grumman fighters...