Word: lockland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumors: the Truman Committee had sent undercover snoopers into Lockland, and many another U.S. plane plant, had so terrified inspectors by threats of jail for laxity that all U.S. plane production would soon be hard hit by new, almost impossible, perfection levels...
...Army Air Forces procurement chief, Major General Oliver P. Echols testified that Lockland production had plummeted, partly because "the management in the plant persisted in trying to blame the Army for interference with production. A contributory cause definitely has been the attitude of certain people in the plant...
...Lockland's resident Army inspection chief, Major Frank La Vista, testified that 400 plane motors were turned down in July on the final test run because of faulty parts. He cited another instance in which three engines, packed for shipping, were found by him to be defective. The company then rechecked 89 other engines packed for shipping, found flaws in a number of them...
...some of the new facts, Curtiss' dapper president, Guy Warner Vaughan, was hard put to find answers. He admitted to the Committee that he had not been aware of many of the faults which the investigators had spaded up at Lockland, that "we weren't doing a job in some respects." He felt the production slump was caused by the reorganization the plant, was undergoing to eliminate the bad spots...
...nervous, intense Senator Harry Truman was far from satisfied. After the hearing he bluntly warned: "The Lockland plant is one of the most perfectly tooled in the country, but it is also one of the worst managed we have found. There must be improvement of management or the Army will take over...