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...Washington this week on wheels. Three six-car trains painted red, white and blue and ten truck caravans left for a 40-day series of one and two-night stands to carry the message of subcontracting to thousands of little businessmen throughout the U.S. It was Floyd Odium's circus...
...defense equipment; the little men could see and feel the guns, gears and gas masks their Government needs. Blueprints, specifications and experts littered every car-from OPM, Army Air Corps, Engineers, Ordnance, Chemical Warfare, Medical Corps, Signal and Quartermaster Corps, Navy, and Maritime Commission. By tour's end, Odium hopes 30,000 small manufacturers will have flocked around the samples and said, "I can make that...
...Floyd Odium should prove unable to help Joe Martin save Attleboro, and if Joe should carry the question to Congress' floor, SPAB might be in even more trouble than the jewelers are. The magic word "allocation" will not prove magic enough if its only practical effect is to put people out of business...
...Left to right: Don Nelson, Floyd Odium, Jeweler Ballou, SPAB Chairman Henry Wallace, Senator Green (D., R.I.), Governor McGrath of Rhode Island...
...hours) is farmed out to more than a thousand firms. Half of these companies and 35% of the man-hours represent pure subcontracting (as distinguished from normal purchases from vendors). This week Sperry President Thomas A. Morgan described Sperry's subcontracting methods, gave some pointers that Floyd Odium's Defense Contract Distribution Service might well note...