Word: j5
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Curtiss-Wright Corp. from 1935 to 1949, whose love of speed took him from auto racing and designing (the 1908 Vaughan Runabout) into aviation, where he mass-produced 2,000 airplane engines per month during World War I, went on to develop the first truly U.S. engine (the Whirlwind J5, which powered the Spirit of St. Louis), and expanded his company in World War II to produce 142,840 engines and 26,269 military aircraft; of chronic bronchitis; in-New Rochelle...