He was responsible for Soviet airplane production, a task he apparently fulfilled effectively.

During the years before World War II, airplane production was the industrial mainstay of Ōta.

After World War I, the private air fleet experienced a glut of cheap surplus warplanes, and the demand for airplane production plummeted.

This plains city of 300,000, which once boomed as a railhead for Texas cattle, runs these days on airplane production.

This material included data on airplane production and other matters concerning the aircraft industry, as well as some information on an experimental process for manufacturing synthetic rubber.

Airbus, which is hampered by European restrictions on laying off workers, has decided to expand its airplane production steadily.

As Germany was allowed neither airplane production nor any shipbuilding capacity to supply a merchant navy, all facilities of this type were destroyed over a period of several years.

"It would be the end of airplane production on the Island," said Mr. Harwood, suggesting the demise of Grumman's 60-year-old aircraft-manufacturing operation here.

LEAD: The strike that has virtually shut Boeing's airplane production for five weeks is starting to hurt the economy of the Seattle area.

"It would be the end of airplane production on the Island," said Mr. Harwood.