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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Donald Lamont Brown of United Aircraft Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, could have been expected to pinch himself as he looked over the production report of his engine division. Sawing away at a backlog of something like $100,000,000 (United's total backlog: above $115...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Not the least remarkable part of this 300% increase in production is the new plant. It will double P. & W.'s floor space, and the building will cost United not a dime. To speed up deliveries on orders for $60,000,000 or more worth of warplane engines and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Just as extraordinary is what is now going on within Pratt & Whitney's existing plant. Workmen are being hired at the rate of 50 a day. Soon there will be two men at every job-one working, one watching - throughout its 6,000-job plant. This also is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

At Paterson, N. J., at the works of the other big aircraft engine builder, Wright Aeronautical Corp., another plant extension is springing up under the watering of another French grant. Wright's expansion is financed by a French order said to be $30,000,000, will nearly double its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Terms (subject to the approval Dec. 28 by Square D stockholders): for Kollsman Instrument Co., Paul Kollsman will receive $2,000,000 of newly issued 5% cumulative convertible preferred Square D stock, plus 35,000 shares of Square D common, which at last week's market price of 34...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Kollsman's Number | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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