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HANSON W. BALDWIN, military analyst of the New York Times...
...affect some dis tricts. Example: California's Sixth, where Democrat Robert L. Condon is seeking reelection. Last year, Condon was refused security clearance by the Atomic Energy Commission because of past associations. Although his district is traditionally Democratic, he may lose to the Republican candidate, Attorney John F. Baldwin...
Recently the Foreign Operations Administration granted $20 million to India to buy 100 steam locomotives and 5,000 freight cars. India insisted that the U.S. do the purchasing. To get the best deal, the Government asked for competitive bids. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, the only U.S. firm that still makes steam locomotives, bid $178,200 per locomotive, v. the low bid of $81,470 from Japan. The low U.S. bid for freight cars was $2,912 per car, while other bids ranged from a German company's $1,006 to a Japanese firm's $1,860. Though...
...contract to build 100 steam locomotives for India (to be paid for by the Foreign Operations Administration), the Japan Rolling Stock Exporter Association bid $81,470 each, 7% under the bid by Germany's Friedrich Krupp, less than half the $178,200 bid by Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton locomotive works...
Steamfitters' local, tried to collect $50,000 from a contractor building a $5,000,000 pipeline. In another story Baldwin told how A.F.L. Hod Carriers' Boss Paul H. Hulahan was involved in a similar shakedown. He also dug up evidence that union "expense" money was often unaccounted for by union leaders. The zealous P-D kept firing away in Page One stories, backed up Reporter Baldwin with biting editorials and cartoons. Baldwin's notes and P-D stories were turned over to House and Senate labor committees, the FBI and the Justice Department...