Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month) without basically altering the hand-tailored methods by which it made 275 planes a month last year. Its expansion has been rapid but lateral-chiefly in floor space and men. Fixed costs per unit do not fall very fast that way. Last week Scripps-Howard Columnist Ernie Pyle described a trip through Buffalo's vast Curtiss-Wright plant, No. 1 U. S. producer of combat planes. Each of the 154,000 rivet holes in a P-40 was drilled by hand. Said he: "It is almost like building a house." Good planes may not be susceptible to mass...
Doctor Suominen once ran 100 miles from Chicago to Milwaukee (stopping only for orange juice), once ran 1,000 miles in one of C. C. Pyle's famed "bunion Derbies." But last week, after six hours, the hot pavement had so blistered his feet that he had to quit with only six more miles to go. Duke, still going strong, won by default...