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Aboard a yacht in Mobile Bay, Alabama's Adjutant General Ben M. Smith was presented to blue-eyed, blonde Evie Robert, wife of Contractor "Chip" Robert, former New Deal favorite. Courtly General Smith bowed low, took a step backward, prat-fell into the harbor...
...builders got started on a set of emergency houses designed by famed Architect Walter Gropius of Harvard and his co-Bauhäusler Marcel Breuer. They differed as much from the first crop of Government houses for defense workers as a Frank Lloyd Wright design does from a suburban contractor...
Lasting two days, it brought together 55 prime contractors holding over $3,000,000,000 in defense orders and about 1,200 would-be subcontractors. Like its 50-odd-predecessors, the clinic's procedure was convention-like: registration, handshakes, conferences, cigars. But the atmosphere was far more serious. To many a little businessman, the clinic might easily mean the difference between commercial life & death. Each prime contractor had a table in the hotel ballrooms, a few rickety chairs, a big placard stating his name, the kind of work he could farm out. Soon prime and subcontractors were head...
...reason why most of the 185,000 U.S. manufacturers are without defense orders is that owners lack the ingenuity and brass to get them. Some got bone chills in a prime contractor's waiting room, some got the Washington run-around,* most never even tried. A few have been burned by phony Washington go-betweens. A few have resorted to real go-betweens (nominally "employes," for legal reasons) and got contracts at the price of large commissions...
John Bernard Kelly, Democratic leader of Philadelphia, is tough. As a contractor's helper he once fell four stories without getting hurt. He was Olympic singles sculling champion (1920). At 51 he still rows, plays handball, swims, golfs. Last fall he went to Washington and told President Roosevelt that national defense demanded that all citizens toughen themselves for physical ordeals ahead...