Word: lockland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact: production of military plane engines at the $141,000,000 Lockland, Ohio plant has nose-dived 85% from the peak reached in March, last month was still only one-thirteenth of the projected capacity of the plant...
Blow One. On a flat greensward near Cincinnati sprawls the immense Lockland factory of Wright Aeronautical Corp., hailed in 1941 as the largest single-storied industrial plant in the world. The Truman Committee sniffed trouble there last January, reported it to Wright and the Army Air Forces. After four months, while Wright and the AAF found little wrong, Truman moved in, took 1,300 pages of testimony. Some points...
...Almost all aircraft plants are partly or completely air-conditioned. At Wright Aeronautical's huge Lockland, Ohio plant, a 6,000-ton* conditioner helps keep parts of the 1,700-h.p. radial engines perfect to the closest tolerances. At Dallas, North American Aviation uses artificial weather in bomber assembly. Wright Field uses refrigeration units to test engines and planes at -67° F.; decompressors to simulate flying conditions...
...plant in Lockland, near Cincinnati, where it needed 10,000 men to produce 1,000 engines a month, Wright had to start from scratch. While its plant was abuilding, it got the vocational schools of five Ohio towns, including Cincinnati, to set up courses for the specific jobs to be done, and brought out supervisors from its Paterson, N.J. plant to teach them. It also picked up 15 smart young men around Lockland, sent them to Paterson to learn core making. After eight weeks they will return to Lockland to teach others. As it prepares to open its new plant...
...made in the U. S. are produced by two companies: Curtiss-Wright and United Aircraft's Pratt & Whitney division. Last week both companies put out promising engine news. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy Warner Vaughan mounted a tractor-plow, broke ground for a huge new factory at Lockland (Hamilton County), Ohio. Pratt & Whitney's co-founder and chairman, Frederick Brant Rentschler, opened two additions to his factory at East Hartford, Conn., announced that still more space will be ready next spring...