August 4, 1952

August 4, 1952

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REPRESENTATION DIRECTORY

List of Companies

REPRESENTATION DIRECTORY

List of Representatives

PROCUREMENT GROUND RULES

A Legal Jungle Is Home to the Buyer

By W.K.27 min

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REPRESENTATION DIRECTORY

List of Companies

In the following directory, the name and address of the company is followed by home office telephone number, representative in Dayton or nearby area, and description of products or services. A Abrams Instrument Corp. 606 East Shiawassee St. Lansing 1, Mich.
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REPRESENTATION DIRECTORY

List of Representatives

Many hundreds, sometimes thousands, of businessmen journey to Dayton, Ohio, week after week to represent their companies at the Air Materiel Command. Hundreds more are full-time company representatives in Dayton, or act on behalf of groups of companies.
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PROCUREMENT GROUND RULES

A Legal Jungle Is Home to the Buyer

A purchasing agent in industry conceivably could go mad as a buyer for the Air Force. It would be through no fault of the Air Force, the Air Materiel Command— its buying agency—or AMC procedures. In industry his actions are dictated by economics and sketchy laws; in AMC, his buying is circumscribed by a mass of legislation, sometimes obsolete, sometimes contradictory, and by volumes of interpretations and practices.

By W.K.27 min

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How AMC Works

Planning for Production Essentials

Job of Production and Resources Division concerns equipment, manpower, materials and plant facilities.
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How AMC Works

Supply Directorate: Source of Logistics

AMC’s primary job is to supply the Air Force. And the pipeline starts in an electronic brain.
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How AMC Works

Management Control Starts at the Top

AMC’s Comptroller Office is concerned with more than how the Air Force is spending its money. Its big job is studying better business methods; and it is sparking changes both in and out of AMC.
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This is AMC

This Is the Air Material Command—the Biggest Business in the World

HEART OF THE U. S. AIR FORCE is the Air Materiel Command Headquarters pictured above sprawling across 7,400 acres near Dayton, Ohio. It furnishes logistics support for USAF, and for foreign forces using U. S. aircraft. Because of the size of that job, AMC has become the world’s biggest business.
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How AMC Works

Air Force’s Watchdog of Quality

The 'how' of inspection is left up to the contractor; results are what Quality Control is interested in.
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How AMC Works

Technical Team Covers World

Aircraft and Equipment Division’s job is around-the-world supervision of maintenance engineering.
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CONTRACT PROCEDURE

A Contract Goes Through the Mill

Before the postman brought you that contract, the document had to survive a blizzard of paperwork. Here are the procedures it had to follow, and how it was kept from smothering in required red tape.
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