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China's plan was born late in 1943, when Lauchlin Currie, then acting deputy administrator of the Foreign Economic Administration, sat down to discuss it with FEA's electric, little, British-born chief engineer, Alex Taub. Taub had just completed a ten-year industrialization plan for Brazil. Said Currie: "China's alive. Why not do one for China...
...meeting changed Toledoans' minds. Head of the Washington delegation was Alex Taub, a former Chevrolet and Vauxhall (British G.M.) production engineer who-experting for OPM and SPAB-has been in the front lines of Washington groups fighting for more subcontracting. With Taub was a group of Army men headed by Major J. B. Maderis of the War Department's contracts distribution branch. Both Taub and Major Maderis gave the Toledo plan their blessing. Major Maderis committed the War Department to a policy of breaking up big orders into their smallest workable units to help spread them to cities...
This belief of U.S. officials made a sad man, a man with cool heels, of an engineer named Alex Taub. A British-American, a Chevrolet man who went to work for Vauxhall Motors Ltd. (the General Motors in Britain), Mr. Taub returned to the U.S. last December with a mission and three specimens of a whang-dinging good British aircraft engine. The mission: to persuade the U.S. to manufacture the engines in quantity. The engine: Napier's 24-cylinder, 50-horsepower, inline, liquid-cooled Sabre (TIME...
...this week, wispy, earnest Engineer Taub was ready to give up. Best the U.S. could do was offer to manufacture a few Sabres for experience. For the rest, Britain would have to lean on its own productive plant for its supply of the sensational new engine. One reported reason for this cold shoulder was that British bigwigs in the U.S. did not want to complicate their purchasing with a new item. Another was that the services and OPM thought they had good enough engines now, better ones being made, still better ones in the works...
Whatever the merits of Alex Taub's quest, the Sabre, already flying in the formidable Hawker Typhoon fighter, was a fair symbol of the horsepower race. Well knowing that there is no substitute for "soup," British designers had gone all out after horsepower. The Sabre turns up nearly twice the horsepower of the old British pursuit engine, the 1,200 horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin (which Packard is still tooling up to make for Britain and the U.S., under a $187,500,000 order). But the U.S. is hot after horsepower too: it already...