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...freshmen also go to Wesleyan. Coach Floyd Wilson will start forwards Bob Dalvin and Red Long, guards Lou Lowenfels and Dick Hurley, and center Ike Cany...
Second high were guard Bob Delven and forward Red Long with 13 apiece. The other starters, guard Dick Hurley and forward Lou Lowenfels, hit for 11 and 5 points respectively...
...Billion Feast. At present, Hurley uses the new line only for the 3,500-h.p. Wright Turbo-Compound piston engine, which powers the Fairchild Packet, Lockheed Super Constellation and Douglas DC-7. But Hurley wants to use it for all Curtiss-Wright's new and secret family of jets and turboprops. There are two new Air Force turboprops, the T47 and T-49, under tight security wraps: both are reported to turn out more than 12,000 h.p. Curtiss-Wright is also testing a jet engine of great power called the J-67, which develops well over...
Though Curtiss-Wright has a backlog of almost $1 billion in orders, President Hurley is taking no chances in the feast-or-famine airplane business. A full 30% of his backlog is civilian business, and he is not concentrating on engines alone. Curtiss-Wright is making electronic equipment, textile spindles, windshield wipers, precision clutches, and diesel engine governors. A plastics division makes household gadgets, nylon-molded gears, wheels, and bushings for automobiles. Says Hurley: "Eventually, I would like to match our military business with civilian business, dollar for dollar...
...Leagues. The dollars have been pouring in during the past three years. In 1949, Curtiss-Wright did $128 million worth of business; this year the figure will soar well over $400 million, and profits have more than tripled to $9,000,000. Roy Hurley has another way of figuring his company's economic health. With the new assembly line and better tools, each of the 20,000 workers at Curtiss-Wright's Wood-Ridge plant will turn out $14,000 worth of engines a year. Says Hurley, "That's just about what the auto companies like General...