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...that M. I. T., which in 1914 started the first course in aeronautical engineering in the U. S., was engaged in several important research projects for U. S. defense, would soon build a laboratory for research on airplanes with a $100,000 gift from General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan...
Last week General Motors branched out into still another aviation field: propellers, now dominated by United Aircraft Corp. and Curtiss-Wright. Announced by G. M.'s Board Chairman Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was the purchase of Engineering Projects, Inc., of Dayton, Ohio. Best guess as to the price: something less than $500,000, plus royalties. Named to head G. M.'s new Aeroproducts Division was Engineering Projects' president, 40-year-old Werner J. Blanchard. He has designed a constant-speed propeller with hollow hub for light cannon, now has under Army test a prop of new design...
...Helpful Harmful Don't Know Henry Ford 73.6% 12.3% 14.1% Senator Wagner 51.8 5.6 42.6 William Green 49.7 18.2 32.1 Secretary of Labor Perkins 43.4 19.4 37.2 Alfred P. Sloan Jr. 25.5 7.7 66.8 John L. Lewis 32.6 44.6 22.8 Norman Thomas 14.1 20.5 65.4 Tom Girdler 4.4 9.7 85.9 Earl Browder...
...sure Messrs. Sloan and Knudsen must be able to show General Motors more than they are paid...
...suddenly become a mortal sin to get a high salary in industry. I ... object to being put in the public stocks and used for campaign material. For instance, a couple of years ago two members of the Cabinet* got on the radio and held Mr. Sloan [G. M.'s board chairman] and myself up as having received over $350,000 a year in salary and bonus-but they did not say that Government and charity had gotten 90% of this amount...