Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1943 — Page 7

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S REPORT FROM CURTISS-WRIGHT is addressed | each month are currently rolling off American RX IBIRI| C TION | . | to everyone in America . .. to all who are LL hu assembly lines. : fighting this war through work and sacrifice S— And to help attain the President’ goal of and service in our Armed Forces. . . and to all 185,000 warplanes in two years, we of the aviawho are financing this war through taxes and |

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a 5 tion industry will give unsparingly of our time, by the purchase of War Bonds. "Not many people realize that into the airframe alone ; { : ee ”» y the p omy OUI exacting aeronautical “know how,” even out We are making this report to you because we #*4 more than 100,000 rivets, clamps and bolts.” most cherished patents to help the automotive believe that it is important and right that you know how we, as a industry and other manufacturers get into mass production in a

major produce in the aviation industry, are doing our share of the job. ~~ minimum space of time.

Production increased from $373,000,000 $33 million in 1938 to $838 million* in 1942 - $139,000,000

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It is important and right that you = We of Curtiss-Wright have had a large part to play in this huge

learn how tens of thousands of undertaking. Overnight ground was broken for millions of feet of

$48,000,000 I NTE : 2 $33,105,000 : Fogur SN NR WF FI skilled men and women of Curtiss- additional floor space. Our personnel has grown from a few thou-

Wright are keeping faith with our sand employees before the war to a current number greater than fighting men. the entire population of Albany, N. Y., or Salt Lake City...and a In the Spring of 1940, shortly be- single plant devoted to production of fighter planes and cargo fore the fall of France, the President transports employs more workers today than were in the entire of the United States called for the aviation industry before the start of World War. II.

1938 1939 1940. 1941 1942

‘*Before final renegotiation of contracts

P ¥ R N 0 N | ) } 11 1\ ] " "Fow people outside the industry are aware that inte production of 50,000 warplanes. Today the men and women at the 16 plants of Curtiss-Wright are : : a Wright Cyclone engine go as many as 80,000

manufacturing operations calling for 55,000 It was a startling challenge to the turning out airplanes, engines, and propellers at a rate of more than individual inspections. . . some to accuracies as fine as

Personnel increase from | four.millionths of an inch.” nation’s productive capacity. 25 times our 1938 production, before the start of World War II, FU i 1938 0 The aviation industry well realized the full import of this challenge.” Helping us to do this job is a vast army of workers employed by thousands From long experience, we knew the size of the job ahead. of sub-contractors and vendors located in nearly all of the 48 states. The Few people outside the industry for instance, I LL in dollars made by Curtiss-Wright to these are aware that into a single 1700 H.P. Wright SW sub-contractors and vendors rose from $17,193,000 in Cyclone engine go as many as 80,000 manu- | SA Li ACY 8 1938 to more than $80,000,000 in 1942. facturing operations calling for 55,000 individual | Nh (¥A GN SERRE: r ¢ EWN! This then, is how management and employees x “1 : \l jo : inspections . . . some to accuracies as fine as four- Lal arab of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, working millionths of an inch. SRN. BE together as a team are keeping faith with our Not many people realize that into the airframe Ce rol ml fighting men. It is part of the story of an ine alone of a single Curtiss P-40 Warhawk go 20,440 a | i dustry that is petforming seemingly impossible parts and more than 100,000 rivets, clamps,and ow the Curtis Electric Propeller of modern op tasks. It is recognition that the skills and ree tT a bolts. gt ; 2 Sud dis omen art oy sazcefilinss of American craftsmen working. : And the Curtiss Electric Propeller of a modern in an atmosphere of freedom, can provide the AND VENDORS airplane is a fine piece of machinery, much more intricate and tools with which to remake the world. difficult to manufacture than the automobile you drive. * What has been accomplished gives us definite assurance of what Yet overnight these things were being called for in tens of thou- can and will be done...The promise that American aviation holds sands within a year. for a better life, in the new age of the air that will follow this wat, Yes, we knew the meaning of the job that lay ahead, and frankly, = is the greatest of any industrial development within our time. there were many who wondered if it were humanly possible. But, Our job has only begun . ..LOOK TO THE SKY, AMERICA}

$112,148 oo. needless to say, the job has been and is being done. i Through team-work and cooperation between management, labor, Sin H $17,195,000 $30,047,000 : ’ : : the Army, the Navy and the War Production Board... cooperation re te

om ~~ such as this country has never seen before... nearly 7,000 planes y PRESIDENT 1938 1959 1940 1941 1942 Gen vi CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION

1941

Payments by Curtiss-Wright to Sub-Contractors and Vendors multiplied 34 times between

1938 and 1942 $228,008,000

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