Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back as 1965, the 1,113-page report said, Apollo's prime contractor, North American Rockwell, had ordered that specifications for two small electric switches used to cut off the oxygen tank's internal heater be increased to 65 volts. Inexplicably, the subcontractor for the tanks, Beech Aircraft, kept delivering switches with a top rating of only 28 volts. Despite elaborate checkout procedures that were repeated through six previous Apollo manned missions, neither NASA nor its suppliers ever detected the oversight. Indeed, the error might never have been discovered if it had not been seriously compounded by other...
According to police and newspaper reports at the time, Flanagan attacked Elrod with a pipe, breaking his neck. But according to two witnesses, Elrod's injuries are the result of his own actions, not Flanagan's. Richard Hinchion, 43, an insulating contractor from Munster, Ind., says that Flanagan was running from the police when Elrod, apparently responding to a cry of "Stop that man!" joined the chase. Attempting a football-style block, he bowled Flanagan over, then crashed headfirst into the wall of a restaurant. Michael Rollins, 35, a reporter for Chicago radio station WCFL, confirms Hinchion...
...other industries, financially ailing companies are also turning to Washington for help. Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee voted $200 million in contingency funds for the C5A super-transport in order to aid cash-short Lockheed Aircraft Corp., the nation's largest defense contractor. The week before, by awarding the Air Force's new B-l bomber contract to North American Rockwell, a company with little recent bomber experience, the Administration lifted the threat of layoffs hanging over thousands of Southern California aerospace workers in an election year. Now Wall Street brokerage firms are asking Washington...
...father was a Hungarian contractor, her mother an Egyptian girl "born in a harem," according to Tullah. She came to the U.S. about 30 years ago, having dropped out of school at 14. "Already I had decided to marry a millionaire," she explains, "but I rejected two Chicago millionaires before I met my Edward. They were bum millionaires. I didn't want to throw such a pearl before swine...
...reported that an Air Force officer who raised questions about the cost of C-5A "was found to have unique qualifications to be the air attaché in Addis Ababa." Had the Air Force stopped C-5A production after the first run of 58 planes, Lockheed Aircraft, the prime contractor, would have taken a substantial loss. But a year after the cost mess had been made public, the Pentagon went on to order a full 115, only one-third of which were necessary to carry out the emergency airlift mission...