Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particularly C.W.S.'s General Waitt. This week Comptroller General Lindsay Warren gave them their second wind. In a blast at the War Department, he named three officers who had stepped out of uniform and into fat jobs with the same companies for which they had just drafted contract termination agreements. Said he: cost-plus procurement "is the greatest device ever invented for pumping the Treasury...
...Place to Go. . . . Stocky Mr. Thomas, a 'Navy flyer in World War I, got the urge to do something personally about politics while he was serving for three World War II years as a special assistant to the Navy Secretary (his forte: aircraft procurement and contract negotiation). In Washington he was astonished by the small caliber of some of the political big guns...
Murphy does not feel, however, that the contract, in its present form, would stand up in a court of law, since it is completely one-sided, binding a player to one team for life, while the club must give him only ten days notice before releasing...
After each of the universities, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, M.I.T., Pennsylvania, Princeton, Rochester, and Yale, had tendered separate applications to the Government for equipment and money with which to start such a program, the Army suggested that they meet and form a contract satisfactory to all of them...
...main problem faced at the Columbia University meetings was that of tenure and the permanence of such a program. The scientists unanimously agreed that they could not obtain sufficiently skilled technicians under a short, one or two year, contract...