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...Makeshift Team...
...ordered 50 of the 84 ordered) canceled its $16 million contract. Even Douglas, now busy with its DC-6, felt shaky. Douglas' comptroller, Ralph V. Hunt, told the commission of the industry's "losses of record proportions, mounting costs, and a steady shrinking of working capital resources . . . makeshift devices ... to stave off insolvency or bankruptcy...
Watson added that if the present pace continues, all of the students temporarily assigned to the top-floor of the gymnasium should be in College rooms by October 11. The deadline for turning the makeshift living quarters back to athletic use is October...
...also asked that the College take "all possible steps" to get men out of the makeshift dormitory quickly, but declined to fix responsibility until he had made a further investigation of the matter...
...time the committee, in its questioning, plunged gleefully back to the summer of 1943. Colonel Roosevelt, home from duty as operations officer of a photoreconnaissance group in the Mediterranean, had been ordered by the A.A.F.'s General Henry H. Arnold to recommend a new plane to replace the makeshift, reconverted P-38s and B-17s. (Why "Hap" Arnold picked Newcomer Roosevelt to do this job was not made clear.) Over the violent objections of General Echols and his boss, Barney Giles, chief of air staff, Elliott Roosevelt had insisted on the XF-II. "Hap" Arnold put through...