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...Dayton, just 3 hr. 1 min. 56 sec. after he left Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Captain Edward W. Kenny, U.S.A.F., eased his swept-wing Republic Thunderstreak (F-84F) to a landing and won the 17th Bendix Trophy Race. Kenny, who broke his back in a World War II landing, screamed over the 1,900-mile course at a record-breaking average speed of 616.208 m.p.h. Previous record: 603.547, set last year by Major William T. Whisner Jr. in an F-86 Sabre...
...sales manager in four years. He switched to Montgomery Ward as appliance boss, in two years converted a $900,000 loss to a $900,000 profit (and became one of the rare "Monkey Ward" alumni to leave on good terms with crotchety Sewell Avery). Then Sayre moved over to Bendix to introduce the nation's first line of automatic washers for the home, sold 42,000 before a single production model came off the line, and eventually put out more automatic washers than all his competitors combined...
Track to Run On. For five years, while BW's 27 other divisions (Pesco pumps, Warner gears, etc.) were making money, Norge had operated in the red. Said Sayre: "I plan to run this outfit the way I ran Bendix-at a profit." When he took over, Norge had a new line of topnotch appliances. But in large areas of the country its products were not even being distributed. Sayre launched a "dealer-getting" program, set up selling tie-ins with distributors for Motorola and Zenith, which make radio and TV sets but no white goods. Dealers began signing...
...watchmakers' claim that they are essential to national security, the Defense Department has said that such non-watchmakers as Eastman Kodak, Bendix Aviation and National Cash Register have supplied splendid timing devices and fuses for the armed forces (although the watchmakers claimed these companies got some of the vital parts from them...
...Dayton, Ohio, Major William T. Whisner Jr., 29, flashed his F-86F Sabre-jet past the finish line 3 hrs. 5 min. 25 sec. after his takeoff from Muroc, Calif, to win the 1953 Bendix Trophy race by 4"8 sec. His average speed for 1,900 miles: 603.547 m.p.h., some 50 m.p.h. faster than the record...