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...noncombat planes. It canceled orders for 420 T36 trainers placed with Beech and Canadair, recalled 37 C-54 transports that it had leased to airlines. The Navy also canceled Temco Aircraft's "secondary source" contract for some 100 F3H-1 Demon jet fighters. McDonnell Aircraft, the primary supplier, was unaffected. Current backlog of all aircraft orders: $18 billion, enough to keep the industry busy for more than two years...
...month selling poster paint to artist supply houses. "I saw right off the bat," says Klein, "that the field was too confined." He soon expanded it by selling his paints to mannequin makers and skating rinks (for painting designs under ice). "Well, today we are a big supplier of paint used by the mannequin industry; we have also become the biggest supplier of ice paint...
...Although Canada is far ahead of any other single country both as supplier and customer...
...ranged up to several hundred thousand). Some of the Senators pointed out that the U.S. law is clear on the point involved: no officer of the Government may transact business with any firm in which he has a financial interest. General Motors is the Defense Department's biggest supplier, holds approximately 7.8% of the dollar volume of all the department's contracts. Wilson seemed astonished to learn that there was such a law. Said he stolidly: "What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good...
Like Sterling. In developing a new weapon tailored for an exacting Navy job, Grumman once more carried out its 23-year-old mission as the chief supplier of Navy planes. During World War II it turned out 17,000 planes, including Hellcat and Wildcat fighters, the backbone of the Navy's carrier squadrons. To the Navy, said the late Vice Admiral John C. McCain, the name Grumman was like "sterling" on silver...