Word: wellwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago to head United Air Lines, soon turned over the reins of the Boeing division to Designer Egtvedt. Other young men hurried to Seattle as Boeing's name spread-Edward Wells arrived at the age of 21, destined to design whole families of Boeing planes; hustling, roly-poly Wellwood Beall, 28, engineer, pilot and crack salesman who first taught engineering at the School of Aeronautics, then went off to sell Boeing planes to China...
...hand at other products, as many other planemakers did. he took a gamble and stuck to planes. He built 50 Stratocruiser airliners, sold them -and lost $13.5 million. But Allen cashed in in a more important way. With the Stratocruisers, he held together his top-notch engineering staff under Wellwood E. Beall, the engineering genius who directed the design of World War II's B-17 and B29, and later the building of the B-52. His staff set to work designing the B-47 medium bomber, landed $17.7 million in contracts for it and for guided missiles...