Example sentences for: northrop

How can you use “northrop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They have blocked the Staples-Office Depot merger and the Lockheed-Northrop Grumman deal, and threw a monkey wrench (ill-advisedly, but still) into Barnes & Noble's proposed acquisition of book distributor Ingram.

  • But Northrop bought parts from Radio Shack and put them on MX missile-guidance systems without proper testing.

  • Corporations have tended either to smoosh names together--thus Lockheed and Martin Marietta became Lockheed Martin, McDonnell and Douglas Aircraft became McDonnell Douglas, Northrop and Grumman became ...

  • Lockheed Martin dropped its takeover of Northrop Grumman rather than continue to fight a federal antitrust suit.

  • Founded by auto mechanic Allan Loughhead and his brother Malcolm in 1916--with, tellingly enough, designer Jack Northrop, who went on to found Northrop Aircraft--the company struggled until it produced the Vega, the plane that Amelia Earhart flew across the Atlantic.


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