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A look back at the life and work of Donald Douglas. Excerpted from the article: “$2.500,000 Worth of Planes a Day - Donald Douglas set that as a production goal in filling orders for $654,579,973.26 in warplanes for America and her allies. And he is reaching that goal on schedule - just as he always has come through on every job that he has ever tackled.”
 
  • The Barber shop office where he designed his first plane.
  • The Cloudster being built.
  • A Douglas plant
  • Douglas in his office.
  • Douglas on his Racing Sloop
  • Graphic of his Military Planes
  • The monument at the Long Beach “Blackout” plant
 
This is an original 7 page magazine article from 1942
Pages measure 6 1/2" x 9".
We do not photocopy these.

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