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Tremendous Loss. Since the construction program began 4½ years ago, reported Major General William T. Thurman, an aide to the Air Force deputy chief of staff for materiel, labor disputes have caused 327 major work stoppages and strikes at 22 missile bases, including Cape Canaveral, accounting for the "tremendous" loss of 162,872 man-days. Despite the losses, the Air Force stoutly maintains that the construction program is on schedule to make bases operational. It has kept it that way by being flexible in its definition of what constitutes an operational base and by pumping funds, estimated conservatively...
Whether this activity will be enough to cut or stall the Communist offensive is something that General Weller and his chief, Admiral Felt, will have to ponder. Soviet supply lines bring 45 tons of materiel into the Pathet Lao armies every day: Gorky trucks, armored cars, assault rifles, carbines, light and heavy machine guns, 105 howitzers, long-barreled...
...Force Materiel Chief Lieut. General Mark E. Bradley Jr. last week gave a blunt warning to Air Force contractors: "There's too much gold plating and fanciness. I intend to raise hell as long as I am here until I get some action." The action he wanted was to eliminate waste and overcharging in Air Force procurement. Bradley said that $100 million has already been trimmed out of the revived B70 program "by cutting out fancy items that were put in there to do the job just a little better. You can do the same job, perhaps a little...
...Congolese soldiers a few weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 5). Like the thousands of Americans who man the ramparts of the world on ordinary duty, the G.I.s had come off one mission of mercy-flying supplies to Chilean earthquake victims-only to be assigned to another: delivering men and materiel into the Congo on U.N. duty. No sooner had they debarked in Stanleyville than they were pummeled and beaten by a howling...
...postwar business world, the out standing example is General Lucius DuBignon Clay, the compact (5 ft. 9 in., 170 tbs.), hard-driving chairman and chief executive of Continental Can Co. West Pointer ('18) Clay, 62, carried out one of the biggest logistical jobs in history as director of materiel in the Army Service Forces in World War II. After war's end, as commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment of Germany, and fought the Russian blockade of Berlin. Since...