ROBERT,
     In a message dated 02-01-98 you wrote ...
> In a message to Robert Linenweber  Jim Sanders wrote:
>  JS> Look at the Automobile industry. There has been over 6,000 makes.
>  JS> How many now? Iiron and steel industry.?  Aluminum?
>
> When I was a boy I read a book about Tucker, who made the Tucker
> automobile. The movie a few years ago stated the case pretty accurately.
> The bottom line is "the bottom line" as far as the corporations are
> concerned.
    I was "between wars" at that time and working in Detroit.
 I saw many dies stacked up to be shipped from Detroit to
 Tucker which could not be delivered because all of the assets
 were frozen....
    Macnamara as President of Ford tried to claim "excess profits"
 were made on subcontracts for the B-47 bombers.  He had a hatred
 of Boeing that went back to his days as a captain with a military
 "bean counting" team at Boeing... That case fell through...
    Ford later had a large contract for J-57 engines for the B-52s
 and KC-135s.
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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