Memorial Tributes Volume 2 (1984) / Chapter Skim
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JAMES SMITH McDONNELL 1 899- 1 980 BY ARTHUR E RAYMOND jAMES SMITH McDONNELL was an aeronautics engineer and businessman whose foresight and dynamic leadership created one of the world's great aerospace manufacturing organizations.
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In 1967 the McDonnell Douglas Corporation was formed through merger with Douglas Aircraft Company of Santa Monica, California, noted for its famous DC series of commercial airliners as well as numerous Army and Navy combat aircraft and missiles such as Thor and Nike. This merger fulfilled a long-held desire of Mr.
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His interest in the probing of space was also strong, arising from curiosity about the nature and meaning of the universe and life. He was intensely interested in the human mind, brain, and genetic makeup and in how to realize the human potential.
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It is very clearcut. It is the rapid pace of creative evolution that has been going on, the rapid pace at which the human mind is delving deeper and deeper into the mysteries of this fantastic fairyland universe in which we find ourselves consciously existing.
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