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Until pachydermatous (275 lb.) Frederick Riebel Jr. was ousted from his $30,000-a-year job as president of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. three weeks ago, he kept his mouth tightly closed. But last week, before the House Naval Affairs Committee, which is probing Brewster's snail-paced production, Mr. Riebel rattled all the Brewster skeletons in public...
Sometimes weeping softly, sometimes roaring with rage, frog-voiced Mr. Riebel blamed all the troubles at Brewster on the "hellish" contract it had with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He lashed out at the union's tough, headstrong boss, Tom De Lorenzo, impaled lesser officials as "punks and heels," denounced the local itself as that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked...
Baffled Bundler. But Bundler Riebel soon found out that "every time I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo I got out with less than I went in with." Riebel stopped bundling, started battling. He got nowhere that way, either. Meanwhile he had other troubles, which he tried to solve by firing top Brewster officials...
...Replied Riebel: "Oh, I've dreaded that question more than any the committee could ask. It's a matter of embarrassment to a dear, dear friend of mine. . . . I say a little prayer every night for Kaiser's success at Brewster...
...Fred Riebel had tried to wriggle out of the strait jacket, but he was soon laced in tighter than ever by the rough & tumble Brewster union. He had no time to untangle the materials mess Result: Brewster failed in production on the Navy's Corsair fighter, although production of the so-so Brewster dive-bomb er picked up. In August, month of Brewster's latest strike, not a Corsair was delivered...