Word: graichen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ralph R. Graichen, aircraft technician then assigned to Air Corps headquarters, declared that the contract for the reconnaissance planes was authorized because of pressure from Elliott Roosevelt. Army contract officers protested the high cost of the plane, the unusual terms of the contract. They were overruled. The Budget Bureau recommended that the flying-boat contract be terminated, the F11 production transferred to someone else. The recommendation was ignored. Snorted one disgruntled colonel (according to a 1944 memo): "let Hughes "hang himself...
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