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...contract awarded by the Interior Department to the agent for a Swiss firm, Pacific Oerlikon Co. of Tacoma, Wash., for four hydroelectric generators to be installed at the Palisades power project on the Snake River. Closest...
...nation's snail-paced arms buildup, North Carolina's new plant is good news of a special sort: it represents the first entry of private U.S. enterprise into the complicated business of developing guns for aircraft. The company that will try the job is the Oerlikon Tool & Arms Corp. of America, subsidiary of Switzerland's century-old Oerlikon Works...
...Force has tried to get private industry into developing aircraft armament, but with little success; businessmen are fearful of being tagged with the "merchants of death" stigma that haunted Du Pont for years. With Oerlikon's arrival, the Air Force hopes that other U.S. manufacturers will get into ordnance development and provide U.S. planes with the heavier firepower they need...
Cannonballing. The man who brought Oerlikon to the U.S. is retired Lieut. General Kenneth Bonner Wolfe, 56, a bald-domed organizer who was in charge of B-29 production during the war, later plugged for huge forging and extrusion presses for the Air Force (TIME, March 3). As Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel after the war, K. B. Wolfe was concerned over the backward state of U.S. aircraft armament. Convinced that private enterprise could do a better job than the Army, he talked to Emil Georg Bührle, owner of Oerlikon and probably Switzerland...
...hrle, who went to Oerlikon from Germany to run the company for its German owners in 1924, had proved that he knew as much about business as about guns. When he took over, Oerlikon was a machine-tool company with few tools, no liquid assets, a work force of 80, and no orders. Biihrle looked around for a new product, bought the patents on a 20-mm. cannon. Within five years, orders for it were pouring in from China, Finland, Japan and South America. By 1936, Bührle bought up all the stock in the company...