Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee ended its Hughes investigation and turned to a more inviting target. While deaf Howard Hughes listened impassively, with an earphone clapped to his good ear, Michigan's Homer Ferguson grilled the discomfited Benny Meyers, Major General, U.S.A. ret., the man who had approved the original $70 million contract...
Pressure at Work. The committee turned up some solid facts. Without question, bustling Henry Kaiser and his lanky associate Howard Hughes had had very special treatment in wartime Washington. Ex-WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson testified that he had ordered the flying-boat contract canceled. A couple of months later "we awoke to find the job was proceeding-Mr. Nelson had gone to Mr. Jesse Jones...
Ralph R. Graichen, aircraft technician then assigned to Air Corps headquarters, declared that the contract for the reconnaissance planes was authorized because of pressure from Elliott Roosevelt. Army contract officers protested the high cost of the plane, the unusual terms of the contract. They were overruled. The Budget Bureau recommended that the flying-boat contract be terminated, the F11 production transferred to someone else. The recommendation was ignored. Snorted one disgruntled colonel (according to a 1944 memo): "let Hughes "hang himself...
Meyers: "There is going to be an awful smell about [the Hughes contract] when it gets...
...Manhattan, British Stage & Screen Star Wendy Miller made news that sounded a little more like the neighbors. Shipped to her from England were son Anthony, 5, and daughter Ann, 8; their arrival fulfilled one of the terms of mother's contract in Broadway's The Heiress. The term: the children would be brought over if the show was a success...