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...thing," he says, "but I finally got it running." THE challenge turned him into a car bug. It also made him determined to fill his father's oversized boots. A broad- shouldered (185 Ibs., 6 ft.), soft-spoken young man, Knudsen had the single-minded drive of a piston. He worked in auto plants in summer, went to Dartmouth, then to M.I.T. ('36) for his degree in engineering. After several years at other companies, he arrived at Pontiac, as a menial "tool chaser." He tried everything, just so it added another bit of experience: defense plant chief inspector...
...every jet that rises into the U.S. skies, U.S. airlines will have to find a way to sell two or three of their piston planes. Last week a young (31), gangling (6 ft. ½ in.), onetime hedgehopper named Frederick Ayer showed how the trick can be done-with a tidy profit for himself. From his 24-room office suite in Manhattan, Fred Ayer announced the purchase of 45 Douglas DC-6s (value $30 million) from American Airlines, plus first refusal rights on the $23 million worth of DC-6s left in American's fleet...
...sale puts American Airlines a big jump ahead of its competitors in disposing of its piston fleet (now more than half sold); it also makes Fred Ayer, president and sole owner of his firm, easily the world's biggest aircraft dealer, puts him in a commanding position to cash in on the used-plane market. Since September, he has bought 80 big planes (47 DC-6s, 33 Convairs) from jet-converting U.S. airlines. He has sold or leased ten of the eleven Convairs that have already been delivered, has buyers from small airlines or corporations for 40 more planes...
...ought to establish its right to fly the corridors at any altitude it deems necessary; in the event of another Berlin blockade, the Air Force will certainly use the huge C-130s for long-distance hauls, which would require higher altitudes than the short prop hauls made by piston-driven C-47s, C-119s and C-548. The Chiefs got President Eisenhower's approval, sent the order, waited for the reaction...
...consequently the students play with three dimensional wire models, geometric patterns, and metal masks. The presence of a first rate artist directing the courses is note-worthy; it is comparable in kind, if perhaps not in degree, to the writing courses of MacLeish and the composition courses of Piston...