Word: subcontracts
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...Fairchild acquired 33 plants, 17 under lease, 16 under subcontract. It owned three. Commented Richard Schley Boutelle, vice president and manager, "We didn't buy a damned thing outright...
Denverites had good reason to be proud: the launching meant that their subcontracting problem had been licked. Led by a former incubator manufacturer, Clyde C. Hartzell (now head of WPB's Denver contract-distribution office), a pool of eight local steel-products manufacturers and 15 smaller machine shops landed a $56,000,000 hull subcontract two months ago. They did so well on their first job that this week they landed a second. Now the pool is working on fittings and hulls for 27 ships, expects it will tax every machine shop in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico...
...given him the brush-off by claiming that he had no authority to take him through an auto plant to count the convertible machines. His new proposal was that when G.M., Ford and Chrysler got big orders for identical 30-ton tanks, the three should pool their facilities and subcontract to each other. This is a method of simplifying production which many industries (under the name of the Lyttleton plan) have been forced to in Britain. But the year closed before anyone knew whether Pearl Harbor was the U.S.'s Dunkirk...
...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...