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...
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