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From Model Builder to Engineer y Frank Nye
Marvin L. Stoner, once a Cedar Rapids boy building model airplanes, is 26 and serves General Motors on the national aircraft standards committee. He is the youngest member, helps shape industry policy for the war effort, and links the industry with the government. Two inventions, including one of his, are used on navy dive bombers. Stoner heads standards for GM’s Eastern Aircraft division in Linden New Jersey, overseeing quality across five plants. He pursued college via the Wisconsin plan after finishing McKinley high school in 1937, hitchhiking to interview legislators for a tuition-free scholarship.
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Marvin L. Stoner
Lad
Cedar Rapids
General Motors Corporation
National Aircraft Standards Committee
Navy
General Motors Me
Eastern Aircraft
Linden
N. J
NASC
Stoner
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Young Men’s Bureau
Wilson High
Curtiss Wright
Columbus
Ohio
Wright
Orville Wright
Washington
Gazette
Alex Fidler
Moreen
Amond L. Stoner
Sixteenth Street
B. B. Elmore
Eighth Street NW