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Partridge was sent to the State Hospital for the Insane at Lima. Doctors there released him, finding him sane, although possessed of "some unusual and strong ideas." He returned to Hillsboro to resume his duties as county engineer. The county commissioners tried to fire him, but strong-minded Partridge contended that he had job tenure, that his setting fire to the school was an after-hours act performed as a private person and did not affect his professional competence as a county engineer...
Recently the Foreign Operations Administration granted $20 million to India to buy 100 steam locomotives and 5,000 freight cars. India insisted that the U.S. do the purchasing. To get the best deal, the Government asked for competitive bids. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, the only U.S. firm that still makes steam locomotives, bid $178,200 per locomotive, v. the low bid of $81,470 from Japan. The low U.S. bid for freight cars was $2,912 per car, while other bids ranged from a German company's $1,006 to a Japanese firm's $1,860. Though...
...contract to build 100 steam locomotives for India (to be paid for by the Foreign Operations Administration), the Japan Rolling Stock Exporter Association bid $81,470 each, 7% under the bid by Germany's Friedrich Krupp, less than half the $178,200 bid by Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton locomotive works...