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Nearly all the warplane engines made in the U. S. are produced by two companies: Curtiss-Wright and United Aircraft's Pratt & Whitney division. Last week both companies put out promising engine news. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy Warner Vaughan mounted a tractor-plow, broke ground for a huge new factory at Lockland (Hamilton County), Ohio. Pratt & Whitney's co-founder and chairman, Frederick Brant Rentschler, opened two additions to his factory at East Hartford, Conn., announced that still more space will be ready next spring...
Between them, Messrs. Vaughan and Rentschler now deliver some 1,500 engines (about 2,000,000 h.p.) a month. Thanks largely to orders placed by France and Great Britain last year, this total represents a tremendous advance (Pratt & Whitney, for example, was turning out only 100,000 h.p. a month in early 1939). New shops to be completed early next year will up the joint capacity of Curtiss-Wright and Pratt & Whitney to a phenomenal 4,000 engines a month. Ford, Packard, Studebaker, other automakers should begin to produce aircraft engines late...
...first program of the year, Koussevitzky has chosen the Boethoven Fifth Symphony, and a new work by Vaughan-Williams called A London Symphony. Unless I miss my guess, half his audience will snore through the first half of the program; the other half will go to sleep in the second. This suggests at once the obstacles against which a conductor must labor in planning his programs...
Coach: Frank J. Vaughan...
...would have been exchanged for common and new preferred. Giving nine reasons against the plan, M. I. T. persuaded the management that the stipulated two-thirds of the stockholders would never approve it. Last week, with still other stockholders joining the uproar, Floyd Odium issued a long announcement, Guy Vaughan a short one. Kernel of both: the deal...