Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's weirdest war plant, he found such things as this: Brewster was trying to build dive-bombers for the British without complete drawings of the plane or a list of materials needed...
Until pachydermatous (275 lb.) Frederick Riebel Jr. was ousted from his $30,000-a-year job as president of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. three weeks ago, he kept his mouth tightly closed. But last week, before the House Naval Affairs Committee, which is probing Brewster's snail-paced production, Mr. Riebel rattled all the Brewster skeletons in public...
Sometimes weeping softly, sometimes roaring with rage, frog-voiced Mr. Riebel blamed all the troubles at Brewster on the "hellish" contract it had with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He lashed out at the union's tough, headstrong boss, Tom De Lorenzo, impaled lesser officials as "punks and heels," denounced the local itself as that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked...
...Riebel soon found out that "every time I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo I got out with less than I went in with." Riebel stopped bundling, started battling. He got nowhere that way, either. Meanwhile he had other troubles, which he tried to solve by firing top Brewster officials...
Engaged. Anne Moen Bullitt, 19, fetching daughter of Philadelphia's socialite-Democratic candidate for mayor, William Christian Bullitt, ex-Ambassador to Russia, France; and Marine Corps Lieut. Daniel Baugh Brewster Jr., 19, peacetime Princetonian of Brooklandville, Md.; in Philadelphia. Her mother, the late Anne Moen Louise Bryant (widow of Soviet Hero John Reed), became Bullitt's second wife in 1923, was divorced by him in 1930, died in France...