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...experiencing difficulties. The main reason is that Japanese executives in the U.S. tend to base production schedules on the pace of Japanese factories, where workers put in six eight-hour days a week. When Mitsubishi took over the San Angelo plant of a U.S. subcontractor in 1969. its executives made it plain that they would not expect the employees to adopt Japanese habits. They have contented themselves with the work pace that American foremen can get out of 100 Texans who put in conventional 40-hour weeks...
...idea is also attractive because it has already shown glimmerings of success in some cases. The Aerospace Association's President Harr estimates that the industry now handles $2.5 billion worth of non-aerospace business annually, including urban studies, pollution control and housing. For example, the Rohr Corp., a subcontractor of airplane parts, two years ago began studying rail-transit problems and has since won a profitable, $66.7 million contract to construct cars for San Francisco's new rapid-transit system. Railroads of all kinds are the projects most often mentioned as possible conversion targets for the aerospace industry. Says...
...back as 1965, the 1,113-page report said, Apollo's prime contractor, North American Rockwell, had ordered that specifications for two small electric switches used to cut off the oxygen tank's internal heater be increased to 65 volts. Inexplicably, the subcontractor for the tanks, Beech Aircraft, kept delivering switches with a top rating of only 28 volts. Despite elaborate checkout procedures that were repeated through six previous Apollo manned missions, neither NASA nor its suppliers ever detected the oversight. Indeed, the error might never have been discovered if it had not been seriously compounded by other...
...least one black subcontractor on Gund Hall be guaranteed if one is willing to do the work at a price reasonably comparable to other bids...
Since then, Fairchild Hillers sales have climbed from $115 million to $210 million for 1966. Along with the F-228, the company is engaged as a major subcontractor on the McDonnell F4, the Boeing 747, the SST, and it is working with West German designers on what could be a multibillion-dollar verticaltakeoff and landing aircraft. With such projects under way, Fairchild President Edward G. Uhl's forecast of doubled sales within the next six years seems somewhat conservative...