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Neat Feat. One area in which the F-lll has been an unqualified success is its revolutionary swing-wing design. The wings work perfectly. But while the F-lll's builder, General Dynamics, fell behind schedule trying to satisfy airmen, Navymen and McNamara men, the Soviet Union scored a neat feat of copycatting. At last July's Moscow air show, it displayed two new swing-wing combat planes, including one that had unquestionably profited from the tribulations of the F-lll. The Russians' Mikoyan-designed fighter has its air ducts placed far forward on the fuselage, apparently...
Kaiser's achievements were famous. Until World War II he had mainly been a road, bridge and dam builder. But he decided to make ships because the U.S. needed vessels in a hurry. "I'm a builder," Kaiser explained, "and if you call yourself a builder, you ought to be able to build anything." Using prefabricated parts and assembly-line techniques in an industry that had never known either, Kaiser's seven shipyards built 1,490 cargo ships and 50 baby aircraft carriers before the war was over. This amounted to one-third of all U.S. ships...
...York Yacht Club, when he sailed his new, 102-ft. pilot schooner America to England in 1851 to do battle with the Royal Yacht Squadron in a race around the Isle of Wight. The original price of the America was to be $30,000, but her builder had to knock her down to $20,000 because she did not prove the fastest boat in the U.S.* Against...
Last week, in one of the year's more unusual mergers, Geneen agreed to buy Levitt & Sons, Inc., the world's largest home builder, for $92 million worth of ITT stock. The building company, which showed a whole industry how to change the face of postwar suburbia, would operate as an autonomous subsidiary under President William J. Levitt...
Nobody else has put together an empire quite like it. Through subsidiary Kingsberry Homes, Boise Cascade foresees selling 5,000 prefabricated houses this year. In joint ventures with Los Angeles Builder R. A. Watt and Perma-Bilt Enterprises, a San Francisco area housebuilder, another 2,500 dwellings will go up. And Divco-Wayne Corp., which last month agreed to merge with Boise Cascade, does a $100 million-a-year business as one of the world's foremost makers of mobile homes and travel trailers. "We've been trying to get from timber-our starting point-down...