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...from $73.96 to $8.54 each. On the other hand, where quality will save maintenance costs, the Pentagon demands higher standards of contractors. Massive amounts are being saved by putting items once sold by a single company up for competitive bids; in one such case, the cost of each aircraft windshield of a certain type was lowered from $669.72 to $443. Moreover, arguing that Government-supported research often gives a company an advantage in future Government orders or in making civilian products, the Pentagon is making companies pay more and more of the cost of research on defense projects...
...their trucks must perform and their desire to keep maintenance costs down. Before placing an order for 160 International Harvester truck tractors, engineers of Charlotte's Johnson Motor Lines-one of the biggest U.S. truck fleets-tested two pilot models for a year, then asked for changes from windshield wipers to heaters. It was partly because Bell Telephone, the world's biggest commercial truck customer (8,800 purchased a year), wanted a Volkswagen-styled side-door compact truck that Ford and Chevy two years ago produced their copies of the Volkswagen compact. But for the most part, truck...
...with arms and faces thrust through the windows. The driver tried to inch ahead. A voice shrieked: "Watch out! You're running over somebody!" The driver tried to back up-no use. A woman's legs appeared on the hood, and disappeared as she climbed over the windshield and onto the roof. More people began stomping on the roof, and as it started to cave in, Larrazábal climbed out a window and onto the roof to try to calm the mob. A fat woman in a tight skirt nearly squashed him in a bear hug. Larraz...
Engineers have known for years that reflections inside the windshield could be cut by a dark-painted dash. But Detroit's executive-level decision (on record at a 1955 congressional hearing) was to keep the shinier surfaces and bright colors they claimed were "acceptable to the people...
...windshield smashed, its passengers shaken, its cargo of coal and potatoes in every corner of the cab, the old bus finally lurched to a stop a few miles down the road where the Communists no longer mattered-at the U.S. checkpoint, a foot or two inside West Berlin...