Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that man will run into on the moon. He is also a down-to-earth executive. Rising in just 5½ Years from a $15,000-a-year engineer to chief executive officer with a current annual income of $135,000. Jones has reshaped Northrop from a lagging prime contractor to a broad-based "supplier of suppliers," whose profit rate of 3.2% on last year's sales of $267 million was the best among airframe makers. Where Northrop just a few years ago had only two major projects-one plane and one missile-it now works on more than...
...well-to-do railway building contractor, Heimito von Doderer was born and has lived most of his life in Vienna, is considered Austria's most eminent novelist. He was a prisoner of war in Russia in World War I, fought in Hitler's Luftwaffe in World War II. Of his ten books of fiction and five other works, The Demons, meticulously translated by Richard and Clara Winston, is the first to see English...
...vehide. Instead, it bid successfully for products that Avco itself developed: gas-turbine engines for helicopters, height-finding radar, missile re-entry systems. Avco currently wrings 65% of its sales out of products that came off its own drawing boards in the past decade, and it is the prime contractor on 90% of its defense work. Says its top research man, Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz: "We bid only on contracts in which we have a solid ad vantage over the competition...
...from an aide that about 100 workers had walked off their missile-site construction jobs near Denver's Lowry Air Force Base. Goldberg called Lowry to find out what the trouble was-and learned that the men were protesting because a fence had been built by a nonunion contractor. He ordered tele grams sent to union officials, reminding them in no uncertain terms that they had made a no-strike pledge on missile-base construction projects. "They made a commitment," he said, "and I expect them to keep...
...Most of the Problems arise from the "concurrency" concept, under which the silo complexes are being built. To get the job completed as quickly as possible, the Army Corps of Engineers-which supervises actual construction for the Air Force-puts as many as five contractors to work on a project at the same time. Their work must dovetail perfectly, with tolerances to the disappearing point. If one contractor does not place an electrical junction box precisely right on a silo wall, it will not link with the cable being laid concurrently by another crew. If a silo...