Word: westervelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy, which finds Brewster 18 months behind schedule on contracts totaling $175,000,000, is almost sick & tired of the whole thing. Retired Navy Captain George C. Westervelt, who ran Brewster for a month when the Navy took it over, reiterated the ominous warning given by James V. Forrestal, Under Secretary of the Navy. He told the committee: if Kaiser fails, all of Brewster's Navy contracts should be transferred to other companies...