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Last week Ling wanted something else: Chance Vought Corp., the oldtime aircraft company turned missile and electronic producer. Ling, willing to spend more than $6,500,000 to get a company that grosses $215 million a year, had quietly bought 17% of the company's 1,190,540 shares. Then, even though the stock was selling at $39.88 a share, he announced that he would buy at least 150,000 shares more for $43.50 each. Chance Vought President Frederick O. Detweiler promptly denounced the offer; he said the price was little more than the book value of the stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chance Vought Takeover? | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

Neat Fit. Chance Vought fits neatly into Ling's plans to build Ling-Temco into a power in the electronic communication field. Besides its missile and electronics skills, it has a large plant next door to Ling-Temco's outside Dallas. Plant facilities are among Ling's most urgent needs for the expansion he sees ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chance Vought Takeover? | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

Corp. (51% owned by Chance Vought Aircraft) is developing a scanner: so is Cambridge's Baird-Atomic, Inc., which is working on a scanner for the Air Force that is able to read Russian, then feed it to a computer that translates the words into English. Though all employ similar principles, each machine differs considerably in detail, and the makers guard their secrets carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESEARCH & DISCOVERY: The Voracious Eye | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...Navy was understandably in no hurry to advertise Lieut. Barnes' embarrassment-or its own. But Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc., makers of the plane, thought it too good a story to keep-as if the brief flight proved something special about their plane instead of something forgetful about the man who flew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Wanted Wings | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT, hard hit by defense cutbacks, will become a major maker of mobile housing units. It bought two house-trailer manufacturers, General Coach Works, ABC Coach Co., and will add a third, Mid-States Corp. Three firms' combined 1959 sales: $60 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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