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Sport of Kings. In Washington, B.C., after he was expelled from a local ping-pong club, Attorney Charles S. Geier sued for $3,000 damages, explained in court that the expulsion had damaged him "emotionally, physically, socially, financially and professionally...
...machine-tool production slumped. Thus, when the Korean war broke, producers were deluged with orders for replacement tools as well as for the new types needed for the weapons of modern warfare. Typical is the case of the Cincinnati Milling Machine Corp., biggest U.S. toolmaker. Says President Frederick V. Geier: "When we should be devoting most of our talents to making the complex special-purpose tools that are required for our fantastic new weapons, two-thirds of our energy is being devoted to turning out catalogue [standard] items...
...landing gear. "These are not blueprints," said one engineer. "They just explain what [the company] wants and leave it up to us to figure out a machine that will make it. Nothing like it has ever been made before." In the same way, other complicated problems are dumped in Geier's lap. Samples: ¶ The Air Force wants a tool that can cut 2,800 Ibs. of metal down to a complex wing gear weighing 200 Ibs., with contoured surfaces, tricky drill holes, etc.
...other voters. Machine tools are no more important than pots & pans.") A series of recent orders (TIME, Aug. 6 et seq.) has changed all this, but there is still vast confusion at the top over how many tools are actually needed, and who should get them first. Says Fred Geier: "If they would just go away and leave us alone, we could do a better production...
...teaching them to fly as a regular part of the curriculum. This week 40 fledglings in this pioneering airprep school were agog over the first of their number to take his test for a pilot's license. With 35 hours of soloing, 17-year-old James D. Geier of Cincinnati had beaten out his headmaster. Headmaster Albert Keep still has only...