Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Jock, interested in Dallas' Southern Aircraft Corp., began traipsing over to Globe several times a week to watch progress on the company's sleek new monoplanes. Then he started buying Globe stock. Now he and his independently rich wife, Agnes Pyne McLean, own 16% of all Globe shares, can be outvoted only by Kennedy's 17%. A month ago Jock and Agnes both became vice presidents and directors of Globe...
...before the march of naval progress, was a Mississippi scow compared with the U.S.S. Washington, one of the newest battlewagons, with her heavy armor protection for crews above decks (against shell and bomb splinters), her massive armament (topped by nine 16-inchers), her imposing hull and turret armor, her sleek, low-lying speed lines...
...carbon, low-alloy steel suited for airplane wings, stabilizers, rudders, elevators, flaps and ailerons. Combined with a plywood fuselage, it makes a top-notch combat trainer, weighing only 3% (150 lb.) more than an aluminum ship. The aluminum saved on 1,000 steel-plywood jobs would make 420 sleek pursuit ships...
...such brain was that of William Francis Gibbs. His firm of Gibbs & Cox, naval architects, had designed yachts, the luxurious "Santa" liners of the Grace Line, slick, sleek destroyers for the Navy. For the Maritime Commission's merchant fleet tall, bony, bespectacled Mr. Gibbs had adapted the design of a British freighter, a little ugly duckling of 10,000 dead-weight tons. Parts were standardized for mass production. The plan, which the Maritime Commission adopted, called for simple reciprocating engines, fittings, gears, pumps (all interchangeable) to be made from coast to coast, shipped, fitted into place at the yards...
...fighter plane-of-the-year is headed for quantity production. Republic Aviation Corp.'s sleek brute of the substratosphere, the P-47 Thunderbolt (TIME, Jan. 12), has released its design to other manufacturers. That much, and no more. Army censorship allowed Republic to announce last week in its annual statement to stockholders...