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Many big manufacturers, enjoying their first real business in ten years, are reluctant to share it. Furthermore, Navy and Army contracts hold the prime contractor responsible for quality and delivery dates, and in some cases prohibit subcontracting. In case of a mishap in subcontracting, DCS can take no responsibility. Moreover, many potential subcontractors are as fiercely independent as they are small, hate to take orders secondhand...
...Visiting the camp in February, aging Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson congratulated all hands on progress made. Next day the contractor and engineer were fired...
...about ready to settle down when he was offered a job by his brother's union. To fight open-shop contractors, the union was dynamiting structures built by non-union labor - not demolishing them, but twisting the whole framework by placing the explosives at the point of greatest stress, forcing the contractor to pull it down...
Cambridge's pudgy Mayor John W. Lyons and his pal and co-defendant Paul Mannos, a Brookline contractor, served their first day under fire yesterday in the Middlesex Superior Court under indictment on 66 charges of general conspiracy and bribery...
Armchair constructors had fancifully assumed that all the camps would be built on good terrain, that weather would be fine, that roads, railways, water supplies and electric power would be ample, that the costs of labor and materials would stay put. As any lay contractor worth his cement could have foretold, practically none of these assumptions held good. Plans were suddenly, sometimes erratically, changed. Congress delayed initial appropriations, so that jobs which might have been done last fall had to be done in wintertime. Unions put the bite on workers for stiff initiation fees, held up some camps until demands...