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to Culver’s desk. Culver answered the phone in his
trademark fashion of the time, by picking up the
phone and stating “Skonk Works, inside man
Culver.” “What?” replied the voice at the other end.
“Skonk Works” Culver repeated. The name stuck.
Culver later said in an interview conducted in 1993
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