August 11, 1952

August 11, 1952

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Boeing Awards Stock to Allen

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‘businessliner’ Means Business

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Douglas Ready to Build Jet Transport

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Boeing Awards Stock to Allen

Award of 1,198 common shares of Boeing Airplane Co. stock to William M. Allen, president, making a total holding of 3,302 shares, is reported in the latest Securities and Exchange Commission report. Also reported is award of 57 common shares and purchase of 55 common shares by Clif Barron, officer, making a total holding of 226 shares;
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‘businessliner’ Means Business

Cessna turns out eight small commercial planes a day to show that this travel is on the upgrade.
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Douglas Ready to Build Jet Transport

Plans now firm; mockup being shown to airlines. Company to invest up to $40 million.
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Slowed By Steel

Aftermath of strike to linger for months. Engine companies feel it now; airframe later.
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U. S. Gliders: No Support, No Wins

England and Spain won top honors in the biennial World Gliding Championships at Madrid last month, with the U. S. taking sixth place in a field of a dozen nations entered. Great Britain’s Phillips A. Wills was first in the single-seat matches and Spain’s Juez Luis won the two-place.
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Flight Rules Set in Event of War

Departments of Defense and Commerce have laid out working details governing control of civilian and military flying during a national emergency. Under the new plan, three warning conditions—white, yellow, and red— will govern civilian and military nontactical flying:
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Naa-uaw Dispute Tests Wage Board

North American Aviation’s dispute with the CIO United Automobile Workers probably will give the Wage Stabilization Board its first chance to apply what little dispute-settling authority Congress left the board in amending the controls act last month.
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F-86h Production Due at Columbus

Despite recommendation by Aircraft Production Board Acting Chairman W. L. Campbell (AVIATION WEEK July 28, p. 12) to pass over the North American F-86H Sabre fighter in favor of the later North American development, the XF-100 Sabre 45, production will start at Columbus on the F-86H late this year.
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Usaf on Lookout for Irregularities

The tremendous jump in AMC procurement personnel—from 4,000 pre-Korea to 12,000 shortly after Korea— and the considerable discretion allowed buying and contracting employes, offer the possibility of purchase irregularities, Air Force realizes.
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Navy's Score in Korea

Navy’s share of the air blitz in Korea has cost it and the Marine Corps 864 aircraft, of which 386 were downed in combat and the remainder were victims of operational mishaps, a recent study of operations covering the period June 25, 1950-June 25, 1952, shows.
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