Word: dcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...craft because Uncle Sam's credit was good. Would he break this rule for T.W.A.? In a week the designs were whipped out. The plane turned the aviation world upside down, with Douglas on top. The plane was the DC-1, the first of the famed broad-winged DCs that eventually carried 95% of all U.S. air traffic, and are now as familiar in the U.S. sky as sparrows...
Testing and Insurance. Most of the big ones were Eddie Allen's babies-Douglas' DCs, Boeing's Stratoliner and Clipper, Consolidated's four-motored Coronado, Curtiss-Wright's Commando, Lockheed's new Constellation (which he shook down last month). Greatest single tribute to his skill was that a big insurance company refused to cover such test flights unless Eddie Allen was up front...
...recent N.A.M. survey of 18,000 machine-tool plants which had turned up 157,000 partially idle machines. In New York State another incomplete survey (ordered by Governor Lehman) has already located 134,500 machine-hours per day available for defense. With two months to go before the DCS's much more detailed census is completed, Meornay has also started the second phase of his program: in all Federal Reserve District Banks and branch banks, DCS has established offices to help prime contractors find subcontractors. He has hired 125 engineers to help coordinate plant schedules, make cost estimates; another...
Many big manufacturers, enjoying their first real business in ten years, are reluctant to share it. Furthermore, Navy and Army contracts hold the prime contractor responsible for quality and delivery dates, and in some cases prohibit subcontracting. In case of a mishap in subcontracting, DCS can take no responsibility. Moreover, many potential subcontractors are as fiercely independent as they are small, hate to take orders secondhand...