Ever since the Truman Committee swung a critical haymaker at inspection methods at Curtiss-Wright Corp. (TIME, July 26), the U.S. aviation industry has buzzed with one shocking fact, a skyful of fantastic rumors.
The fact: production of military plane engines at the $141,000,000 Lockland, Ohio plant has nose-dived 85% from the peak reached in March, last month was still only one-thirteenth of the projected capacity of the plant.
The rumors: the Truman Committee had sent undercover snoopers into Lockland, and many another U.S. plane plant, had so terrified inspectors by threats of...
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