Word: trecker
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Last week in Buffalo 500 manufacturers, gathered in a "Defense Clinic" to hear how they could help in the defense program, nearly had their heads blown off. Up rose young (32) Francis J. Trecker, OPMite, to tell them that much of the U.S.'s available defense capacity was still idle, that if prime contractors did not begin to farm out part of their defense work the Government would force them to - "and it won't be on your terms...
...overcome this resistance, Mehornay first tried persuasion. He borrowed from a Milwaukee machine shop $1-a-Year Men Francis Trecker and his brother Joseph to sell subcontracting as they had machines. They knew their subject. In 1939 their company (Kearney & Trecker) had started subcontracting with orders from the French Government. In Chicago, San Francisco, all over the country, the Trecker brothers held mass meetings whooping up subcontracting. Last week at Buffalo's "Defense Clinic," Francis saw several subcontracts signed before he left...
...Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, onetime protege of famed Frederick W. ("Speedy") Taylor. Cooke thinks that the defense effort should extend even to the home, points to the British "bits and pieces" system which spread aircraft production to 6,500 small shops. But neither Cooke's writings nor the Treckers' barnstorming have yet produced large-scale results. Trecker himself estimates that more than 45% of the nation's defense capacity is still idle...