Word: subcontractors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...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...