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...Speechwriter and Adviser Judge Samuel Irving Rosenman, Statistician Isador Lubin, Contract Terminations Director Robert Hinckley, and Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel W. ("Old Dan") Tracy...
When Robert H. Hinckley, onetime $50,000-a-year executive at Sperry Corp., moved in as boss of the troublesome Office of Contract Settlement, he faced a mountain: the settlement of billions in canceled war contracts. This week, OCS Boss Hinckley reported he was well on his way to bulldozing it into a molehill...
...year ending June 30, said Hinckley, 56,721 contracts, involving almost $16 billion, have been settled. Now, fewer than 1,300 canceled contracts have been tied up more than six months in final settlement...
More important, Hinckley's settlements, which ran at the rate of $1 billion a month last December, have been stepped up to $1.5 billion a month, will soon reach $2 to $2.5 billion...
Despite the smooth clicking of his settlement mill, Bob Hinckley expects to speed up OCS still more. If Japan quits soon the rate will have to reach $4 billion a month; if V-J day does not come for a year, only $3 billion. Both of these settlement goals are so close in sight that Bob Hinckley considers the hardest part of his job done...