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...Network also announced Saturday its elections from the Winter competition. Chosen for the technical board were: Robert L. Post '42, Henry M. Smith '42, Robert W. Shoemaker, Jr. '43, Henry L. Hosford, Jr. '44, and Robert A, Mack...
Seldom does a Governmentman give business a pat on its collective back. But one did last week: bushy-browed Clifton Eugene Mack, director of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division, who last November was given the job of buying $55,000,000 of household equipment for 28,500 homes for civilian defense workers (near airfields, barracks, etc.). Asked how his purchases were going, Director Mack said: "In their dealings with us, plumbing, heating and household equipment manufacturers have shown that they place patriotism above their desire for profits...
...Director Mack had got cooperation that was worthwhile. Nash-Kelvinator shaved the price on 25,000 electric refrigerators to $52 each (retail price $105). A medicine cabinetmaker knocked down his wholesale price from $5 to $2. Another Midwestern manufacturer, after quoting rock bottom on about 30,000 bath tubs, confided: "But you can save $2 a tub if you buy the fittings from the same people we buy them from." So Mack bought "stripped" tubs, got fittings for them from the cheaper source. Savings: almost $60,000 on tubs alone. Said Director Mack, pleased as Punch...
Henry Reed of American Radiator and Charles Nolte of Crane (neither of whom got a drip of Mack's shower) knew exactly how it was done. By buying directly from manufacturers, Purchaser Mack had eliminated the wholesaler's commission. To the tradition-soaked leaders of an industry which believes in the sanctity of the wholesaler's discount and in the wholesaler's friend, the master plumber, as the only true outlet to the public, this was heresy. Adherents to The System, like Crane and American Radiator, call the renegades d-t-u's because they...
...interested in trade rows, but only in the lowest prices is Director Mack. Last week, Clifton Mack took a deep, relaxing breath, purred: "It's wonderful...