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Miss Sarozky has left little trace behind her at the Summer School. She was enrolled in Spanish SAab, was given privelege card number 2390, assigned to Straus A 42. Her proctor, Miss Asha Seth, said yesterday that she never met her and that her name vanished from the official student listing after July...
...Boeing's 707 and Douglas' DC-8 in the European long-haul market. Italy's Fiat and two German firms displayed plans for a new vertical takeoff reconnaissance craft, the VAK 191. Even the small European countries offered advanced products, such as the Swedish supersonic Saab-35 Draken interceptor and the Dutch Fokker F.28 twio-jet airliner built with German, English and North Irish collaboration...
Profits in Jets. Viggen will bring new prosperity to the already thriving 28-year-old company. Last week Saab announced that its 1964 sales rose to $221 million, its earnings to more than $3.8 million, both new records. Auto sales, which account for about 60% of the company's revenues, increased to a record 43,011 units, are expected to climb to 50,000 this year. Saab is still producing and profiting from its Draken-35 jet fighters, the current mainstay of the Swedish air force, and the piston-engine Safir trainers that are used by Sweden and five...
...aircraft building skills that led Saab into manufacturing autos in 1949 have more recently been applied to missiles. The company produces U.S. Falcon air-to-air missiles under license from Hughes Aircraft, is developing coastal defense and ship-to-ship missiles and an advanced air-to-ground missile system that will be installed on the Viggen. Experience gained in designing miniature computers for aircraft enabled Saab to take off in another direction. In the past two years, it has sold Saab-designed commercial computers at prices ranging from $300,000 to $1,000,000, built others...
Creativity in Design. Saab employs 14,000 workers in nine plants, one of which is carved out of the earth below 100 feet of granite to withstand bombing. The company has been ably directed for the past 15 years by President Tryggve Holm, 60, a modest, slide-rule-toting engineer. Holm insists on creativity in design, quality and efficiency in production, has instituted an incentive piecework plan that spurs employees on to faster work. Another Holm plan ensures that quality does not suffer from speed: Saab factories swarm with inspectors, one for every 16 workers...