Word: subcontracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homer Clayton Price, who said this, is turning out $60,000 worth of aircraft accessories under subcontract for Cleveland's Pump Engineering Service Corp. (which makes hydraulic parts for Martin bombers). He is doing it with machine tools he built or converted himself. His factory is the dining room, kitchen, laundry, one bedroom, and garage of his middle-class Columbus, Ohio home. Two of his 22 employes are ex-convicts whom he met at the Ohio State Penitentiary...
...jailbird himself, Homer Price was superintendent of the Pen's machine shop. Thither last spring went a representative of Pump Engineering with the offer of a $30,000 subcontract. Homer Price agreed, took a leave of absence, borrowed $3,000, began converting his hillside home into a machine shop. Since precision machinery for aircraft parts was nowhere to be found, he made...
...neighbor, a penitentiary guard on vacation, and his wife. By last week they were on a three-shift, seven-day basis, and Price's home-built machinery has increased to five lathes, three drill presses, three milling machines, three grinders, a press, a power hacksaw. His original subcontract has been doubled...
...rifle: Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Melvin Maynard Johnson's famed semiautomatic. Up to last week this gun had existed only in a few experimental models. On a subcontract let by Inventor Johnson last November, Universal had manufactured these first Johnsons for The Netherlands East Indies' 150,000 troops (including its Home Guard Army), which may soon need all the modern weapons they can get to use against the ambitious Japanese. Close behind an initial production block of 100 rifles come 500 more this week, with still larger outputs of 1,000 to 2,000 to come. Also...
...Pratt & Whitney airplane engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture. Other orders: To Ford, $140,000,000 for 4,807 Pratt & Whitneys (in addition to 4,236 already on order); to Chrysler, a $42,000,000 subcontract for Martin bomber parts; to Hudson, a $12,000,000 Martin subcontract. Detroit at last was on the way to filling its obvious wartime role: the nation's No. 1 Munitions City...