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Bill Jack v. Adolf Hitler (MARCH OF TIME). Ohio's war contractor William S. Jack (TIME, Dec. 14) of Jack & Heintz, Inc. is a man who has achieved the almost inconceivable. He has made 7,500 factory hands ("associates") work twelve hours a day seven days a week-and like it. Just why they like it, why Bill Jack is so popular with his "associates," so unpopular with rival contractors, is the subject of this short but impressive documentary of a day in the Jack & Heintz factory (automatic pilots and airplane starters...
...prove that they could make a vacuum tube higher powered and cheaper than anyone had ever made before. They had $5,000 put up by two friends, an empty meat market in San Bruno near San Francisco, and some practical experience in the laboratories of a nearby radio manufacturer, Heintz & Kaufman. Last week Bill and Jack had an enormous military-secret backlog, a new plant in the West besides their hugely expanded San Bruno factory, a long list of licensees, and an Army & Navy E to prove how well they had served the U.S. war effort...
...Jack McCullough puts it now, "We didn't know what couldn't be done when we went into the business so we went ahead and did it." He is also modest about Bill Eitel's and his first experience with making vacuum tubes (when Heintz & Kaufman turned them loose on an order for some from an R.C.A. competitor). "Bill burned his fingers a little and broke a lot of glass," says Jack, "but he finally came out of the basement with a vacuum tube...
Even when the outlook was blackest, short, cocky William S. Jack always knew everything would turn out all right. The worst was nine months ago when the profit-probing Vinson committee rooted out the fantastic salaries and bonuses of Jack & Heintz Inc., catapulted President Jack smack into the biggest and juiciest profit scandal of the year. But last week the scandal was forgotten, and upstart J. & H. was riding high as the world's largest maker of aviation starters and automatic pilots...
...better than union-eering, quickly bought, developed and resold half a dozen small companies. Most successful-outside of J. & H.-was Cleveland's Pump Engineering Service Corp., which Jack swapped for 34,666 shares of Borg-Warner Corp., just before he organized J. & H. with tall, bald Ralph Heintz, a born engineer who had some snazzy ideas about aviation starters...