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John Knudsen Northrop, 45, has designed such crack planes as the Lockheed Vega, the Army's A17, but it became evident last week that a big part of his heart and head was really in something very different. For, like most U.S. aircraft manufacturers, Northrop is an incurable visionary...
...entirely new type of airplane: a tailless, two-engined flying wing. The idea itself is not new. Long have designers known that the tail of an airplane, necessary as it always has been for rudders, elevators, leverage, is a drag on a plane's speed. So Jack Northrop started on a new design 18 years...
Vultee is already tooled up to make the stubby, two-place Vengeance in quantity, in a new plant at Nashville, Tenn. Northrop Aircraft, Inc. in California will also make the Vengeance. At dedication ceremonies this week, Wendell Willkie said that by year's end Vultee's Nashville plant will be turning out 100 planes a month...
...Brothers Davis kept their customary silence. A subordinate barked that the trouble, if any, was not with the aluminum supply but with little Northrop's inability to plan its orders, stock up in advance. Commissioner Stettinius harshly denounced Northrop for reporting "shortages which do not exist," declared that the company had already resumed a full working schedule. Mr. Stettinius was less explicit when he said: "[There are] no serious shortages in aluminum . . . now required for national defense. Certain temporary delays in delivery will doubtless occur. ..." That ALCOA could supply defense demands without curtailing its ordinary commercial business, Mr. Stettinius...
...poulos a permanent job. To get him, the orchestra management would have to buy off Barbirolli, whose contract at a comparatively modest salary has two years to run. Minneapolis, which turns out the biggest weekly symphonic audience in the U. S. - as many as 5,000 people in enormous Northrop Auditorium - pays Mitro poulos a big salary as such things go: $25,000 a year. His present contract ex pires at the end of this season. Dimitri Mitropoulos lives simply, avoids parties, prefers the movies or the company of orchestramen. Twice last week he tele phoned Minneapolis, said he missed...