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...sabotage. From the plants also came rumors that confusion, inefficiency and mismanagement had delayed production. From aircraft circles came gossip: Brewster officials had bitten off more than they could chew. From James Work, chairman of the Brewster Board, who has seen his company mushroom from a little subcontractor into a big prime contractor with over $100,000,000 worth of orders, came only silence...
...Stanley's idea grew out of a subcontractor hunt he conducted for Floyd Odium's Contract Distribution Office last summer. The big gap between sub-and prime contractors, he found, was ignorance. The small manufacturer could not find out just what the big one wanted, or even who he was; the big fellow could not find out what the small fry had to offer. In his talks with the small fry, Stanley decided that they needed to know only a few basic facts to find their proper subcontracting niche: 1) the materials to be handled, 2) the type...
...code is set up, a prime contractor translates into it the parts of his job he wants help on. The U.S. Census Bureau's Hollerith machines take this alphabet soup and turn it into a directory. Thumbing this directory to see where his machines belong, a would-be subcontractor can then write the prime contractor (whose name is also coded) for detailed plans, make a firm bid for the work...
General Electric. In Manhattan, General Electric's Commercial Engineering Manager David C. Prince* announced the establishment of a G.E. post-war planning committee. Mr. Prince does not believe that G.E. will have to shut down its expanded capacity after the war. (A large subcontractor, G.E. has expanded only 20%.) By January he expects to have post-war sales and capacity estimates from every G.E. department. His committee will then offset one department's capacity surplus with another's deficit, start planning at once for the use of any net surplus...
...liberal price. . . . Your subcontractor must make a profit to stay with...