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...fact: production of military plane engines at the $141,000,000 Lockland, Ohio plant has nose-dived 85% from the peak reached in March, last month was still only one-thirteenth of the projected capacity of the plant...
...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...
Blow One. On a flat greensward near Cincinnati sprawls the immense Lockland factory of Wright Aeronautical Corp., hailed in 1941 as the largest single-storied industrial plant in the world. The Truman Committee sniffed trouble there last January, reported it to Wright and the Army Air Forces. After four months, while Wright and the AAF found little wrong, Truman moved in, took 1,300 pages of testimony. Some points...
...Almost all aircraft plants are partly or completely air-conditioned. At Wright Aeronautical's huge Lockland, Ohio plant, a 6,000-ton* conditioner helps keep parts of the 1,700-h.p. radial engines perfect to the closest tolerances. At Dallas, North American Aviation uses artificial weather in bomber assembly. Wright Field uses refrigeration units to test engines and planes at -67° F.; decompressors to simulate flying conditions...