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...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...
...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...
...contract soon after the Chinese Reds moved into Korea two years ago. Fairchild had developed the plane, and said it had plenty of idle capacity to turn out more. But at the time, the Air Force was looking for a second source of supply for critical equipment. It wanted Willow Run but the only way it could get it-and thus prevent the Army from snatching it for tank production-was to take K-F in the package. There was another reason for giving K-F a contract: the RFC had just sunk another $25 million in the company...
...Bridges charges hit the papers last week, K-F's President Edgar Kaiser placed ads in ten cities saying that Bridges had "found it impossible to keep any of several appointments" made to discuss K-F's side of the case. Kaiser denied the "inference . . . that the Willow Run operation is inefficient," and demanded a chance to prove it in a congressional investigation...