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...slow production rate of the Allison engine plant in Indianapolis has been the biggest disappointment in the air rearmament of the U. S. Only high-powered (1,000 h.p.) U. S. liquid-cooled engine, the Allison is the U. S. Army Air Corps's one present hope for building airplanes around slim, streamlinable power plants. It will continue to be the only hope until another, possibly the Rolls-Royce Merlin (TIME, July 15), is put into production in a U. S. factory. Last week Allison's production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about...
With Big Bill Knudsen of General Motors heading procurement for Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission, no one doubted that General Motors' Allison plant would get plenty of steam in its boiler. To see what could be done about speeding up the main Indianapolis plant, the Army Air Corps sent as its factory representative a famed flier-engineer who was once one of its brightest technical stars. Stubby, go-getting Reserve Major James Harold Doolittle, famed speed pilot and Sc.D. in Aeronautical Engineering (M. I. T.), was recalled to active duty from civilian life, was glad to answer...
...Allison engine used by U. S. Army to power some of its fastest new airplanes indicates a trend towards...
...National Guild and its tournament were the bright ideas of a slow-spoken, quick-thinking Texas music teacher named Irl Allison, who started the whole thing on a shoestring in 1929. Touring the land to sign up piano teachers for the Guild, Mr. Allison was once down to his last 7?. Today 2,000 members pay $3-a-year dues to the Guild, and Mr. Allison is permanent president. Guild members get their names in an annual directory, their pupils in the Auditions, which this year brought in some $15,000 in entrance fees, cost $4,000 in judges...
More than nominally interested in aviation is the biggest U. S. motormaker: General Motors Corp. Holder of 30% of the outstanding stock of North American Aviation, Inc. (military planes) and 19% of Bendix Aviation Corp. (aircraft accessories), it is also sole proprietor of the big Allison plant, where G. M. engineers are working with might & main to get the U. S. Air Corps's only liquid-cooled aircraft engine into mass production...