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Though he runs all United Aircraft-whose other divisions are Chance Vought fighters, Hamilton Standard propellers and Sikorsky helicopters-Pratt & Whitney is his first home and he roosts there. He picks able younger men and gives them their head-up to a point. But on big decisions, he runs a one-man show; the committee-governments that run many big corporations merely baffle him. Says he: "I don't see how a soviet can run a company." He may stay at his nine-room, Norman-style house, high on a hill above Hartford, for days, brooding over a problem...
Experienced. In Grand Prairie, Texas, while filling in an application for work at the Chance-Vought aircraft plant, an applicant came to the section on military background, answered the "Dates in Service" blank with: "Girls from Memphis, Tenn. to Hot Springs...
...News case rested on a "secret" experimental Navy plane, the XF5U or "flying pancake," which was developed by the Navy and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. But the fact was that only one full-scale plane of the XF5U type was ever manufactured (by Chance Vought), and it never flew. A 3,000-lb. scale model, the V-173, made its last test flight in 1947, is now at Norfolk Navy Depot ticketed for transfer to the Smithsonian Institution. It was pictured in U.S. publications, including TIME, in July...
...applicant at the Chance Vought Aircraft plant at Grand Prairie, Tex. filled in his name on a company form, "Jones, Rufus." The next line read, "alias or otherwise known as." Jones wrote, "Shot...
Henry Foster (H) defeated Van Slyck (Y), 3-2; McLanahan (Y) defeated Hugh Foster (H), 3-1; McKittrick (H) defeated Vought (Y), 3-1; Blair (Y) defeated Clark (H), 3-2; Nawn (H) defeated Kempner (Y), 3-2; Hands (Y) defeated Heath (H), 301; La Roche (Y) defeated Ames (H), 3-2; Knox (Y) defeated Cabot (H), 3-1; Chandler (Y) defeated Fischelis...