Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many men the booming aircraft industry (see p. 63) was hiring was anyone's guess, but Glenn L. Martin's Baltimore plant has already taken on 4,000 men in three months...
...Last month the U. S. railway equipment industry took orders for five locomotives, 315 freight cars, no passenger cars, 6,500 tons of rail. Last week, No. 1 U. S. Rail Tycoon Martin Withington Clement of the $2,322,408,000 Pennsylvania announced that his railroad is in the market for 20 electric locomotives, 2,500 freight cars, 18 passenger cars, 80,000 tons of rail. Total : $1,7,000,000 of new capital investment (75% to be paid for by the sale of equipment trust certificates), but only a beginning for the Pennsylvania which has 58,380 unserviceable freight...
...meet possible wartime needs of the U. S. Some experts calculate the combat life of a warplane at 30 days, which means that soon after a war starts the size of a nation's air force would be the monthly capacity of its factories. Last week plants like Martin and Lockheed were hiring men as fast as they could be interviewed. They were not greatly worried about a shortage of skilled mechanics because army and civilian schools were turning them out by the hundreds. Black-browed West Pointer president Jack Jouett of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, who knows...
...last week fighting planes for the belligerents still rumbled on test hops over the big Martin plant at Middle River, Md., over the Curtiss plant in Buffalo, over the West Coast factories of Lockheed, Douglas and North American at Los Angeles, Consolidated at San Diego...
...profits from this business will be counted in the future. Its effect on the industry is already apparent. No longer are planes virtually made to order as they were only last year. Every big plant is on a quantity production basis. Glenn Luther Martin's plant at Middle River, Md., got its start with a real automobile-type assembly line with thumping orders of 151 Bio bombers from the Army and 117 more from The Netherlands. North American sold 350 of its BT-9s to the Air Corps and 457 BT-9s and BC-1s (a combat edition...