Word: gwinn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior executive vice president of Litton Industries, got a call from an executive recruiter. Would Gray be interested in becoming president of United Aircraft Corp., the world's biggest maker of jet engines? Indeed he would, but he laid down one condition. United Aircraft Chairman William P. Gwinn would have to get the approval of Tex Thornton, Litton's chairman, for Gray even to negotiate. "After 17 years as a Litton employee," said Gray, "I didn't want to do anything without its being known from the very beginning...
...Last week tall, balding Gray, 51, got the job. It was a surprising choice because United had always developed its top management from within. Gwinn explained that he was 64 and President Arthur Smith was 60-both approaching the "normal" retirement age of 65. (Smith will now become chairman of the executive committee.) Then Gwinn added: "Someone from the outside could broaden our thinking and fuse...