Word: subcontractors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conn., dozens of huge, computerized lathes turn out some of the 3,000 finely machined parts that go into the company's latest jet engine, PW2037, destined for use in Boeing's economy airliner, the 757. Six hundred miles away, at the plant of a Pratt & Whitney subcontractor in Walled Lake, Mich., other machines perform equally complex functions, instructed by electronic signals sent over an ordinary telephone line from a computer back in East Hartford...
Further questions have also been raised about Donovan's relationship with William Masselli, who has been described by the FBI as an alleged Mafia "soldier." Masselli is president of Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., which was a subcontractor for Schiavone. At Donovan's confirmation hearings, the FBI mentioned his alleged connections with Masselli, but shed little light on them. "I do not have any background whatsoever on him," Executive Assistant FBI Director Francis Mullen told the Senate committee. He added that there was "no reference" to Donovan in FBI wiretaps used to monitor organized crime...
Boeing and Lockheed both expressed interest in Fokker's designs, but Lockheed lacked sufficient funds to go ahead with the project, while Boeing proposed a deal that would have relegated Fokker to the role of a subcontractor. In McDonnell Douglas, Swarttouw found a perfect fit. The deal was finally cut during three months of secret meetings earlier this year, many of them taking place in hotel rooms booked under the name of a nonexistent corporation called Pegasus...