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...invested in four auto finance companies. In 1945 Investor Moore was one of a half-dozen businessmen to take over North American's idle Dallas airplane plant, helped organize the Texas Engineering and Manufacturing Co. Temco now grosses $72 million a year as an Air Force subcontractor, with profits of $2,668,210. Says Millionaire Moore, who owns 85,534 shares of stock: "Getting in on the ground floor of anything is the surest way to make big gains. You put in $25,000 and suddenly it's worth a million and a half...
...weeks ago Hazel got her first live tip. A Dallas firm told the long-distance operator to try a subcontractor in Laporte, Texas. She did. "Yes, we have R. J. Bedgood employed here," reported the Laporte office clerk. "I can get him to the phone if it's an emergency." "Never mind, operator," said Hazel, and hung up. Her next call was to the Savannah chief of detectives, who put in a few calls himself...
...there was not much he could do about it. The Bureau is a subcontractor for the Postmaster General, and thanks to the stamp-happy 80th Congress (which invented the stunt of "directing" commemoratives instead of merely "authorizing" them, sponsored more stamps than any other Congress in history), the Postmaster General has become a kind of subcontractor for the legislators...
Probably responsible: some lax machinist who cut the part freehand and bored too deep, perhaps because his employer, a smalltime subcontractor, lacked a jig or automatic stop mechanism. An overrushed inspector tossed out some of the faulty parts; some he passed without tests. The fitting joined the right wing strut to the fuselage. Once it was welded into place, its weakness was hidden from final assembly inspections. But when the glider cut loose from the tow plane on its maiden flight, new stresses snapped the too-thin steel. The craft plummeted 1,500 feet...
...second great merit is that the CMP should enforce real programming (on a quarterly basis) all the way down from the Army, Navy et al to the lowest subcontractor, should halt hysterical overordering in advance of need induced by the old priorities systems...