Business: Who Got What

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U.S. industry's biggest single customer totted up its annual accounting of who got what in fiscal 1958. All told last year, said the Defense Department, military contracts totaled $21.8 billion, of which 75% went to 100 top prime contractors.

The ten biggest and some of their important contracts:

¶ Boeing Airplane Co., with $2.1 billion, including 6-52 bombers, KC-135 jet tankers and Bomarc missiles.

¶General Dynamics Corp., $1.4 billion, including F-102 and F106 fighters, B58 supersonic bombers, atomic submarines, the Atlas ICBM.

¶ General Electric Co., $783.4 million, including jet engines, atomic submarine and ship reactors, electronic gear for virtually every missile in the U.S. arsenal.

¶ Lockheed Aircraft Corp., $755.1 million, including F-104 fighters, C-130 Hercules transports, the submarine-launched Polaris IRBM.

¶United Aircraft Corp., $661.1 million, including J57 and J-75 jet engines, helicopters.

¶American Telephone & Telegraph Co., $659.8 million, including the SAGE electronic air-defense system, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, the "White Alice" Alaskan communications system, ICBM guidance systems.

¶ North American Aviation, Inc., $647.7 million, including F-100 and F107 fighters, the Navy's A3J twin-jet supersonic bomber, engines for the Atlas, other rocket engines.

¶Douglas Aircraft Co., $513.4 million, including Navy jet fighters and bombers, Air Force light bombers, Nike antiaircraft missiles and Thor IRBM.

¶ Hughes Aircraft Co., $472.6 million, including Falcon air-to-air missiles and jet fire-control systems.

¶ Martin Co., $400.2 million, including piston-and jet-engined Navy patrol flying boats, the Titan ICBM and other missiles.