Word: willow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armed with stacks of statistics, Henry Kaiser and son Edgar appeared before a Senate subcommittee last week to defend their performance in making airplanes at Willow Run. But in the midst of the defense, an aide passed them a note containing some startling news: Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott had just canceled Kaiser's orders for C-119 Flying Boxcars, along with $225 million in orders for 244 assault transports from Chase Aircraft, 49% Kaiser owned. On that note, the hearing abruptly ended...
...Force Auditor Sidney Solomon, who checked the books at K-F's plant at Willow Run, explained how money flew. For one thing, said he, K-F tried to charge off to the contract $715,631 of vacation pay for workers who had earned it from auto motive work. Other items disallowed: 1) $4.2 million of automotive costs, which would have eventually totaled $56 million if not eliminated; and 2) a charge to the Government for 65% of the cost of Kaiser's ads replying to Senator Bridges...
There were also some questionable "shop practices," said Solomon, such as the Willow Run workers' habit of making "manual changes" in time cards to show credit for time not actually worked. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, who drops his Rs in New England fashion, asked to have "shop practices" spelled. Explained he: "There are differences in pronunciation in different parts of the country...
...trip last summer-driving a tank at Willow Run, sitting on the Dodgers' bench, collecting cowboy hats-Feisal showed himself an alert, likable, mechanically inclined youngster, not brilliant, but competent and confident...
...finest actress was Betsy Hubbard, as Desdemona. In a meaty role, she was never confused or flustered and the scene in which she sang the "Willow Song" was the most touching of the evening...