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...second source of supply for critical equipment. It wanted Willow Run but the only way it could get it-and thus prevent the Army from snatching it for tank production-was to take K-F in the package. There was another reason for giving K-F a contract: the RFC had just sunk another $25 million in the company and was anxious for a war contract to bail out the loan...
...whose isolationist record in the Senate had been attacked by the Democrats as a national bad example. Symington, onetime St. Louis industrialist (Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.) who has held five top U.S. Government posts in the past seven years (among them: Secretary of the Air Force, administrator of the RFC), is a close friend of Ike Eisenhower, can be expected to cooperate with the new President...
...RFC. 5. Governor Shiv-3. ECA. ers. 27. To Masterbuilder Peter Kiewit went the second biggest single construction contract ever awarded, the $1.2 billion contract for: 1. Erecting the new uranium plant in southern Ohio...
Sisto expanded tiny Barium Steel rapidly by buying other small steel companies, paying for them chiefly out of their own quick assets. With the companies, he got plenty of Government contracts. Later, he got two RFC loans, one for $4,700,000, another for $1,650,000 with the help of Washington Lawyer Joseph Rosenbaum. Later, Senator Capehart charged that Central Iron & Steel had sold scarce steel to a pocket corporation which had in turn resold it in Chicago's grey market for $75,000 profit. Said he: "[The sale] was simply a payoff, and somebody made...
...James Roosevelt, and John S. Sparksman. If these men had ever prevailed upon Eisenhower to run as a Democrat, there would be no question about the outcome of this election. However, Eisenhower preferred not to be the political handmaid of a president who could call the Fullbright Report on RFC corruption "asinine" or who has still refused to fire Harry "Deep Freeze" Vaughan, Wallace "Grain Speculation" Graham, or Donald Dawson who, as presidential patronage boss with power to hire and fire the directors of the RFC, the Fullbright Report found, "recommended" many RFC loans which later went sour. This...