Word: wellwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faces the deferment of more than $350 million in payments due for the rest of fiscal 1958. If the Air Force sticks to its new schedule, and the company cannot expand its $100 million bank credit, Boeing will be forced into a major production slowdown, says senior Vice President Wellwood E. Beall. Boeing is already closing its 1500-worker plant at Everett, Wash.; it has chopped employee overtime, temporarily abandoned a new preflight hangar at Moses Lake, Wash., reduced its shop supply inventory, and cancelled its Christmas party this year...
...complex, highly diversified company, conferences are essential. Says Board Chairman Frederick C. Crawford of Thompson Products, Inc.: "Companies that have decentralized, as we have, have run into the problem of communications between divisions. Conferences have become increasingly important to us." Says Boeing Airplane Co.'s Senior Vice President Wellwood E. Beall: conferences can be "good for morale and give an increased sense of participation in policymaking." Furthermore, decisions made by a group in which everyone understands the "why" of the decision have a better chance of being carried out as intended...
...bigger, goo-h.p. engines with turbo-superchargers, so that the Fort could operate at 38,000 ft. When World War II came along, Boeing was ready. Phil Johnson came back from his Canadian exile in 1939 to run the show. Bill Allen worked out production contracts. Wellwood Beall started the production lines humming. A year later, Boeing was in mass production. Orders were coming in so fast that Douglas and Lockheed also had to tool up to produce Boeing planes...
...rolls out -forget it. Do what you have in the past. Start thinking about the next one, a better one, a bigger one, a faster one." Bill Allen's answer to Twining is the greatest research and development program in Boeing's history. Under Senior Vice President Wellwood Beall, Boeing's engineering department has grown into an army of more than 5,000 top designers, engineers and draftsmen. To build better planes, Boeing this year will spend nearly $5,000,000 on research alone. It will also build a new high-velocity wind tunnel to produce speeds...
...Boeing's top-secret electronics laboratory, others are busy with a $200 million development and production contract for Boeing's F99 "Bomarc," a pilotless interceptor plane to send after bombers. It is in the secret missiles that Boeing sees the aircraft of the future. Bill Allen and Wellwood Beall are convinced that the airplane and the missile are growing ever closer, will eventually become one and the same. When that day comes, Boeing's Allen will be ready, as before, to plunk down Boeing's bankroll to back the aircraft its engineers build. Allen knows that...