Crawford Gordon Jr. (1914 to 1967) was a Canadian industrialist who first made his name organizing wartime defence production under the Minister of Munitions and Supply, C. D. Howe, and then led A. V. Roe Canada, known as Avro Canada. In October 1951 Howe arranged for him to leave the Department of Defence Production and become president and general manager of the company, to help with problems in developing and producing the CF-100 Canuck interceptor. Under his leadership Avro Canada was restructured into Avro Aircraft and Orenda Engines, bought companies including Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation and Canada Car and Foundry, and by 1958 had over 50,000 employees and ranked as the third largest corporation in Canada. He pressed for the CF-105 Arrow interceptor, and after the Arrow was cancelled on 20 February 1959 he was fired as president; his fortune dwindled and he died in New York City on 26 January 1967.
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Avro offered to design and build the new supersonic jet interceptor
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