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...Honorary Inspector." For five years Nelson Rockefeller was the dominant figure in U.S. policy in Latin America, conceived the idea of exporting American technical know-how to underdeveloped countries, the germ of what later became Harry Truman's Point Four Program. He resigned as Assistant Secretary of State in 1945 when President Truman appointed James F. Byrnes to succeed Edward Stettinius, but in 1950 Truman called him back to launch Point Four. As chairman of the International Development Advisory Board, he wrote the charter that still serves for U.S. policy in technical assistance...
...feet, drafted the major planks in the Eisenhower welfare program, e.g., expansion of social security, federal aid for hospital construction. The career employees in HEW took a genuine liking to the millionaire who was humanly interested in their problems; the Food and Drug Administration staff made him an "honorary inspector...
...Check. After prying into the records and questioning personnel, the CAB detectives found that both rules had been ignored. The flange had been checked only "visually" (by looking at it) before the cylinder was installed in No. 2 engine of the Convair that crashed as Flight 476. An airline inspector testified that this corner-cutting technique was "handed down" to him by a predecessor. The hand-down proved disastrous. When the flange, slightly bent by the earlier failure of its studs, was drawn tight on the second installation, the stresses set up in the steel must have caused fatigue cracks...
...kind of corner-cutting that the inspector was guilty of is not likely to happen again. New rules now require that a cylinder that has had stud trouble must be mutilated so that it cannot be used again without a trip to the factory for careful rehabilitation. When the report on Flight 476 is circulated through airline bases, inspectors will think twice before cutting corners. But the CAB's detectives will not relax their vigilance. New airplanes have new weaknesses, which must be found and corrected. New accidents, even though fewer in number, will bring new problems...
...Steel Inspector. To find microscopic holes in strip steel before it is made into tin cans, General Electric Co. has developed a gadget that shines a powerful light on the strip to make pinholes show up. The detector can find holes less than the diameter of a human hair while the strip runs by at 2,000 ft. a minute...