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...bombed places have only the forlorn air of neglected vacancy. It is as if in each city some building contractor had sent out his wrecking crews and then had run out of money or had forgotten what it was he had intended to build in the places his crews had wrecked. By far the greater part of each of the cities remains, of course, undamaged. In the wet and grimy streets life goes on, busy and cheerless...
...Senate passed and sent to the House a bill creating a $100,000,000 Smaller War Plants Corp.-to make contracts as well as the necessary loans to enable small contractors to get to work on war orders. It will not be under Jesse Jones, whose RFC has power to make such loans for which many borrowers cannot qualify. It will be run by WPB, so that for the first time in war production the agency that grants contracts will make or guarantee the loan that makes production possible. All Government procurement officers are under orders to make contracts without...
Once the code is set up, a prime contractor translates into it the parts of his job he wants help on. The U.S. Census Bureau's Hollerith machines take this alphabet soup and turn it into a directory. Thumbing this directory to see where his machines belong, a would-be subcontractor can then write the prime contractor (whose name is also coded) for detailed plans, make a firm bid for the work...
Stanley's first guinea-pig prime contractor was Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. The first "Directory of Contract Opportunities" was ready in December. It contained 132 coded jobs to be done, and soothing instructions on how to use it ("Don't take one look at this directory and then decide it is too complicated. . . . Anyone who can read a telephone book can read this"). Jim Stanley and Westinghouse Production Engineer S. W. ("Bill") Schmidt went to Indianapolis, where a pool of 15 local factories and shops had agreed to try the plan in a small way. Bill Schmidt...
...look over minimum Government specifications, draw up blueprints. They were adopted by the Maritime Commission as standard equipment for the Liberty ships last Aug. 4, and Globe American got a $1,500,000 contract for 1,248 of them. Globe American started boat production on Dec. 1. As prime contractor, it "co-contracted" 200 boats to Neptune Supply Co. of New Orleans, 304 to Imperial Lifeboat & Davit Co. of New York, kept 744 for Kokomo...