Word: mehornay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unwillingly took 23% of the contracts, while most of the 184,244 U.S. manufacturing companies got none. Last February OPM set up the Defense Contract Service division to spread the defense load by encouraging the big firms to subcontract. For its head, OPM picked hard-hitting Robert Lee Mehornay, a onetime Army captain...
...Mehornay 's first point of attack was to locate the idle capacity. As a guide, he used the recent N.A.M. survey of 18,000 machine-tool plants which had turned up 157,000 partially idle machines. In New York State another incomplete survey (ordered by Governor Lehman) has already located 134,500 machine-hours per day available for defense. With two months to go before the DCS's much more detailed census is completed, Meornay has also started the second phase of his program: in all Federal Reserve District Banks and branch banks, DCS has established offices...
...overcome this resistance, Mehornay first tried persuasion. He borrowed from a Milwaukee machine shop $1-a-Year Men Francis Trecker and his brother Joseph to sell subcontracting as they had machines. They knew their subject. In 1939 their company (Kearney & Trecker) had started subcontracting with orders from the French Government. In Chicago, San Francisco, all over the country, the Trecker brothers held mass meetings whooping up subcontracting. Last week at Buffalo's "Defense Clinic," Francis saw several subcontracts signed before he left...
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