So many worlds : invention, management, philosophy, and risk in the life of Leroy Hill / Craig Miner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miner, H. Craig.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hill, Leroy, 1894-1981.

Hill, Leroy.

Aeronautical engineers--United States--Biography.

Aeronautical engineers.

United States.

Businessmen--United States--Biography.

Businessmen.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [1997]

Summary:

As a gifted Berkeley engineering graduate in the late teens, Hill succeeded in reengineering the famous "Liberty Engine" of World War I to fit into the legendary bomber DH-4, or "Flying Coffin". In the late 1920s his passion for aviation brought him to a new marketplace as twelve-year president of Air Associates - the remarkable catalog vendor of everything from plane parts and repairs to the whole aircraft. During World War II, he founded his own company, manufacturing and distributing all the hose-clamps for the popular P-51 Mustang Fighter. A true entrepreneur, Leroy Hill was involved in sixty different companies, either designing new technologies or marketing improved versions of the old. Politically, he was a lifelong anti-union activist working in the most unionized industries in the nation. Though he marched lockstep with no one, Hill remained to the end of his life a hardbitten opponent of big government who championed many conservative movements of his day.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0896723801

OCLC:

36573754