Word: subcontracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companies. Three companies (Du Pont, Bethlehem Steel, General Motors) willingly or 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...
...Rochester, N. Y., Ritter Dental Mfg. Co. turned its attention from landing gears, made on subcontract for Glenn Martin, to the summer busy season in dental equipment sales. Stromberg-Carlson had a $48,985 educational order for field-telephone magnetos, but was more interested in its booming domestic business of frequency-modulation radio sets...