Word: symington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next three committee sessions Worth squirmed unhappily on the committee griddle. In an abject recantation Witness V. Torth agreed that there was no evidence of corruption in the B-36 procurement program,* that neither Defense Secretary Louis Johnson nor Air Secretary Stuart Symington nor top Air Force officers had been guilty of impropriety in buying the Consolidated bomber, that it was "ridiculous" to say (as the anonymous statement had suggested) that Board Chairman Floyd Odium and the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. had contributed $6,500,000 to the Democratic campaign...
...days, a walkout of 7,500 workers at the Bendix Aviation Corp. in South Bend, Ind. had strangled production of military jet engines, was also slowly throttling the flow of spare parts to the Berlin airlift. Last week Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington stepped in, invited the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and Bendix President Malcolm P. Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against...
When one motor of their chartered twin-engine Lockheed conked out 60 miles from Columbus, Ohio, Vice President Alben Berkley and a planeload of Washington brass, including Attorney General Tom Clarlc, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, and Air Secretary Stuart Symington, made a safe emergency landing. After an hour's delay at Columbus, they commandeered a Navy plane and took off for St. Louis to keep a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner date. Next day the Veep flew on to Los Angeles in a regular commercial airliner...
...first charge to be answered was whether anybody had benefited personally or politically by the choice of the B-36 (TIME, June 6). In a letter he delivered personally to Chairman Vinson, Air Secretary Stuart Symington categorically denied this "basic innuendo." Every airplane the Air Force had ordered, wrote Symington, and every step in the B-36 program had been approved by the nation's top air commanders. At no time had "any higher authority attempted to recommend in any way the purchase of any airplane." As to reports that his own efforts in behalf...
...fourth week in office he ordered the Navy to scrap its biggest dreamboat, the $188 million supercarrier, United States, and ended naval aviation's dream of striking at the heart of any enemy with the atomic bomb. The strategic bombing role would go to Secretary Stuart Symington's Air Force...