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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...
...Mourned the death last week of the Borah of France, Senator Victor Berard, 67, Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee. He, the scholarly assistant director of the Ecole dcs Hantes Etudes, resembled Senator Borah in exceedingly few respects. After 44 years of preparation, Senator Berard published recently his great tome Did Homer Live? Weighing the evidence pro & con with vast erudition, he cautiously concluded that Homer in all probability did live...
...Darling or "Ding," who lives in Des Moines and whose cartoons (drawn for the DCS Moines Register) are syndicated throughout...