AVIATION: Walter and Olive Ann

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This week the Beeches are proud. Their last fiscal year was good but this one will be better. October and November sales alone almost equalled all those made last year; by next September sales will cross $75,000,000. Despite high taxes, profits are zooming too. But neither Walter nor Olive Ann considers Beech Aircraft a war baby. All of its models could be converted into peacetime ships tomorrow.

Another munitions-maker, Jack & Heintz, Inc. of Cleveland, also paid a remarkable bonus last week: $650,000 to 800 employes. J. & H., like Beech, is no ordinary plant. Started a year ago by ex-union business agent William S. Jack, 53, it already has $20,000,000 in Government orders, mostly for aircraft starter assemblies. All employes are called "associates." They punch no time clocks, get monthly bonuses averaging $30, free coffee, jazz music four hours daily, free hamburgers every Wednesday, will soon get free grub from a company cafeteria.