Aluminum Sweating Operations: Hearing Before a Subcommittee ... Eighty-third Congress, First Session on the Extent of Government Competition with Private Enterprise, September 28, 1953Considers impact on small businesses in private industry of aluminum sweating plants operated by Navy and Air Force. |
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Air Force Base Air Materiel Command aircraft aluminum Airman First Class aluminum ingot aluminum pig aluminum scrap aluminum sweating furnaces aluminum sweating operations approximately average cents a pound cents per pound Commander HUNT committee contract cost study CULLEN demilitarization Department of Defense disposal equipment estimated FORSYTHE fuselage GAMRATH GOLDBERG GOLDEN Government handling Headquarters installation KAUFMAN Kelly Air Force Kelly Field KIMERLING labor Mars Metal McClellan Air Force McClellan and Tinker McClellan Field memorandum method military NAS San Diego National Production Authority Naval Air Station Navy percent recovery personnel plane pounds of aluminum pounds of scrap private industry produced Sacramento salvage savings scrap dealers scrap warranty sell Senator FERGUSON Senator LONG September 28 smelters smelting sold sweated aluminum sweated pig sweater sweating plants testimony Tinker Air Force Tinker and McClellan Tinker Field tion WHITE wing wrecked aircraft
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Page 166 - ... designed or adapted for aerial combat by the use of machine guns, rocket projectors or artillery or for the carrying and dropping of bombs, or which are equipped with, or which by reason of their design or construction are prepared for, any of the appliances referred to in sub-paragraph 2 below. 2. Aerial gun mounts and frames, bomb racks, torpedo carriers and bomb release or torpedo release mechanisms; gun turrets and blisters. 3. Equipment specially designed for and used solely by airborne...
Page 57 - Do you swear that the testimony you are about to five will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so elp you God ? Mr.
Page 5 - I hope this information will be helpful to you, and if I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to call on me.
Page 79 - the Contracting Officer," and insert. In contracts of the Department of the Navy and the Department of the Air Force, the activity designated in accordance with Departmental procedures.
Page 75 - Do you solemnly swear the testimony you will give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God ? Mr.
Page 172 - There are so many variables * * * such as scrap prices, Ingot prices, percentages of recovery, types of material charged, and annual generations * * * that it is risky to attempt any exact projections of the significance of these figures over a year's time.
Page 2 - The Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force will present testimony setting forth their position in relation to the operation of aluminum sweating plants.
Page 8 - Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN : In accordance with your request made at the subcommittee hearings on July 30, 1957, in connection with the Chief of Engineers' testimony, there is submitted herewith a report on military supply activities.
Page 94 - ... which are designed, adapted, and intended for aerial combat by the use of machine guns or of artillery or for the carrying and dropping of bombs, or which are equipped with, or which by reason of design or construction are prepared for, any of the appliances referred to In paragraph (2) below; (2) Aerial gun mounts and frames, bomb racks, torpedo carriers, and bombrelease or torpedo-release mechanisms; armor plate and turrets for military aircraft. Category IV (1) Revolvers and automatic pistols...
Page 38 - ... form of aluminum pig averaged 8.33 cents per pound. Accordingly, the difference in the value of aluminum scrap, as scrap, and the aluminum scrap, as aluminum pig, was 8.33 cents minus 7.89 cents — the price being received at McClellan Air Force Base at that time for aluminum scrap — or 0.44 cent, which is less than half a cent per pound before deducting sweating costs. This amount is the additional amount per pound available to cover the cost of labor, fuel, supervision, depreciation, et...