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...GRUMMAN Aircraft has developed a deadlier version of its swept-wing Cougar (F9F-6) jet fighter for the Navy. The new plane has a longer fuselage, wider, relatively thinner wings which give it higher speed (more than 650 m.p.h.), greater fuel capacity, more maneuverability at high altitudes...
...Grumman reported sales of $240,857,669, up $20 million over 1952 and topped only by the World War II peak years of 1943-44. Profit after taxes was $7,129,341 ($3.56 a share) and the year-end backlog was $273,758,000. Grumman common sold last week for 26¾, down from a 1952 high of 31⅜, but above...
...first slash of dawn cut across the sullen grey sea, U.S.-supplied Grumman fighters tore into the coastline. They laid their napalm on a hill that overlooked the beach objective, worked the area with their machine guns. Then U.S.-supplied landing craft lurched towards shore. There was no resistance. The Communists, in the style of this uncanny war, had known for days where the French were landing, when they were coming, and how; they simply melted into the hills, taking the adult population of Tuyhoa with them. The small town was empty but for one suicide squad-eight men with...
...Miller High Life is Fred Miller. A tall (6 ft.), lean, handsome man who was once an All-America tackle and football captain at Notre Dame, Miller keeps his muscles trim at handball and tennis, hunts and fishes with the oldest of his eight children, pilots his own Grumman Widgeon amphibian around the U.S. Besides running the brewery, Miller has energy left to run scores of outside activities. He is president of the Milwaukee Brewers Association, runs public relations for the U.S. Brewers Foundation, is a director of the Milwaukee County Society for Mental Health and the Milwaukee Boys...
Nevertheless, the company was cramped for space to build longer runways for jets at the Bethpage plant. Owners of new houses, who had crowded as close as 50 ft. to Grumman's runways, began objecting to the roar of jets. Navy brass was all for moving Grumman to a less crowded and less vulnerable inland site. But Swirbul persuaded the Navy to build Grumman a $22 million plant and test field on 4,500 acres 50 miles farther out on Long Island. There Grumman may build a successor to its Cougar, a new FioF jet fighter, now being tested...