Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Donald Lamont Brown of United Aircraft Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, could have been expected to pinch himself as he looked over the production report of his engine division. Sawing away at a backlog of something like $100,000,000 (United's total backlog: above $115...
Not the least remarkable part of this 300% increase in production is the new plant. It will double P. & W.'s floor space, and the building will cost United not a dime. To speed up deliveries on orders for $60,000,000 or more worth of warplane engines and...
Just as extraordinary is what is now going on within Pratt & Whitney's existing plant. Workmen are being hired at the rate of 50 a day. Soon there will be two men at every job-one working, one watching - throughout its 6,000-job plant. This also is a...
Before the snow is off the ground, Pratt & Whitney expects to have its factory-on-a-silver-platter turning out as many high-powered motors as are now being crated in the loading room of its old plant, sees no trouble ahead in filling the requirements of the U. S...
At Paterson, N. J., at the works of the other big aircraft engine builder, Wright Aeronautical Corp., another plant extension is springing up under the watering of another French grant. Wright's expansion is financed by a French order said to be $30,000,000, will nearly double its...