Word: fairchild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When New Hampshire's sharp-tongued Senator Styles Bridges charged last November that the Air Force was paying Kaiser-Frazer $1.2 million apiece for the same C-119 Flying Boxcar that Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. made for $260,000, K-F's President Edgar Kaiser cried foul. He took newspaper ads in ten cities to answer the charges of K-F's inefficiency (TIME, Nov. 24) and invited a congressional investigation. Last week...
...onetime shipbuilding associate of Henry Kaiser. McCone recited the crowded events of a busy day in December 1950. In the morning, Kaiser-Frazer got a $25 million RFC loan; at noon, Henry and Edgar Kaiser met McCone at lunch to ask him about defense work; in the afternoon, Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. was notified by telephone that Henry and Edgar would come out to Hagerstown, Md. next morning to pick up copies of Fairchild's specifications for making...
...When Fairchild executives protested, McCone assured them that K-F would simply be a secondary source for planes-something the Air Force was trying to set up for all prime contractors. But a few months later, K-F became a prime contractor on its own. It bought working control of Chase Aircraft, whose C-123 is Fairchild's principal competitor. The decision to give K-F a contract to make Flying Boxcars, said McCone, was made four days before K-F had even submitted its written proposal for one (Senator Bridges wryly called this "faster than fast...
Also named were Judith Kapstein, of Providence, R.I. and Moors Hall, Fine Arts; Ann Fairchild Stephans, of New York City and Eliot Hall, English; and Beatrice Tugenhat, of Webster, Mass. and Moors Hall, Psychology...
Griswold has served as a Law School faculty member since 1935. In 1946, he became Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor...