Word: northrop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from $40 million to $70 million apiece. Lockheed will build 585 more F80 Shooting Stars and trainers, plus 82 Navy patrol planes; Republic another 409 F-84 Thunderjets; Curtiss-Wright 88 F87 multiple-jet fighters and reconnaissance planes. Despite the crash of a Flying Wing model last fortnight, Northrop got an order for 30 Wings. Douglas and Grumman walked off with the lion's share of the Navy orders, around $50 million apiece for fighters and attack planes...
...Flying Wing YB-49 is the second to be built by Northrop Aircraft, Inc. (the first has been undergoing test flights since last October). A queer, tailless bird, the YB-49 is powered by eight jet engines, with a thrust roughly equivalent to 32,000 h.p., making it the most powerful bomber in the world and one of the fastest...
Plane Prex. La Motte T. Cohu, who resigned as T.W.A. president last month, was named to succeed ailing Harry Woodhead as president of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Cohu was chairman and general manager of Northrop Aircraft, Inc. for eight years before his term with money-losing T.W.A. Bogged down by production tangles, Convair lost $5,130,338 in the five months ending April...
...parochial or schoolmarmish, tries to strike a balance between the critical and the creative, and "as a mark of respectability" pays its contributors $30 an article. Its "Spectator's Appraisal," one of two regular departments, assays such solid stuff as Toynbee's A Study of History and Northrop's The Meeting of East and West. "Tradition and the Skeptic," the other, usually takes the skeptic's side...
Tough, canny Mr. Cohu, World War I flyer and ex-board chairman of Northrop Aircraft Inc., lost no time in swinging his new broom-and his ax. He spent so much time flying from one TWA office to another that a TWA underling quipped: "The loneliest place in the company is the president's office in Kansas City...