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Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:58:02 Ben Gilbert Nisho Iwai was involved in a corruption scandal in 1979 after it passed on a five hundred million dollar yen bribe from McDonnell Douglas to the director of the Japanese Defense Agency in an attempt to influence the sale of the F-IV…
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:59:35 David Rosenthal Okay, so when Skunk Works and Kelly and Ben Rich and everybody sit down to work on this, the current state-of-the-art fastest plane at the time, this is late-nineteen-fifties when they start working on this, is the McDonnell Douglas F-IV…
- ▶ 2:18:18 David Rosenthal They're trying to compete with Boeing and with McDonnell Douglas here.
- ▶ 2:18:21 Ben Gilbert The DC-Ten, I think, was the McDonnell Douglas competitor.
- ▶ 2:34:46 Ben Gilbert And Boeing today, which is not Boeing, but Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, and this incredible era of consolidation.
- ▶ 2:41:23 David Rosenthal So the DOJ blocks that, but also in 1997, Boeing merges with McDonnell Douglas and becomes the giant that it is now.
- ▶ 2:41:55 Ben Gilbert There's Lockheed Martin, right after their combination, there's Boeing, and there's still independent McDonnell Douglas.
- ▶ 2:42:03 Ben Gilbert And McDonnell Douglas is eliminated from competition, so it just comes down to Boeing and Lockheed as the two finalists.
- ▶ 2:42:11 Ben Gilbert Within a month, Boeing announces that it's buying McDonnell Douglas.
- ▶ 2:42:15 David Rosenthal Yeah, that was probably the end of McDonnell Douglas once they got eliminated.
- ▶ 2:42:20 Ben Gilbert This contract is so big, and they were betting so heavily on it, that basically Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, after McDonnell Douglas loses, kind of need to just combine and size up in order to be a formidable competitor to Lockheed Martin…