Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short, blond, athletic-looking, 21-year-old Burton Griffin works by night in the stock room of Vega's Burbank (Calif.) plant, goes to bed with the dawn. One morning last week young Griffin couldn't sleep; a wild idea chased through his mind. Finally it drove him to put on his clothes, hustle off to the plant to tell his boss. Soon 1,500 questioned employes of Lockheed-Vega voted to put it in practice. The idea: "I got to thinkin' about Christmas and about all those bombers we're making for the British...
Lockheed Hudson bombers cost $90,000, take 24,000 man-hours apiece to build. From its 20,000 employes (average pay: 75? an hour) Lockheed-Vega solicited voluntary pledges of two or more hours of pay per man, planned to make up the difference itself (expected to be almost 50% of the cost, despite an estimated 100% subscription). Proclaimed the Brothers Gross (Robert E., president of Lockheed, and Courtland S., president of Vega) after querying the State Department on procedure:*"We will be very glad to transfer the funds so raised ... to Lord Lothian with the employes' instructions that...