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Re: Про крышки...
>Feb. 6, 1985 12 AM PT
>In response to a fast-emerging brouhaha over toilets this week, Lockheed Corp. said Tuesday that it has drastically reduced the price of 54 toilet covers for its Navy P-3 Orion aircraft.
>Lockheed President Lawrence Kitchen sent a telegram to Navy Secretary John Lehman on Tuesday saying that Lockheed would cut the cost of the toilet part to $100 each from the original price of $640.09.
>The part in question is a molded fiberglass cover that encloses the stainless steel bowl and plumbing of the toilet on the Navy anti-submarine patrol aircraft.
>The Navy had ordered 54 of the units at an original total cost of $34,564.86. In the course of a Navy audit, Burbank-based Lockheed told the Navy last week that it had overcharged for the covers by $4,600.
>Lockheed agreed to refund the difference, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
>But the matter did not die. This week several congressmen alleged in hearings that Lockheed had charged $600 for “toilet seats.”
>The Pentagon issued a statement Monday saying that it was investigating the high cost of the item. As national interest in the issue mounted, Kitchen decided to cut the price.
>The firm says it is losing a considerable amount in the gesture. A spokesman suggested that the Navy try to find a cheaper producer of the unit.
>Kitchen said in his wire to Lehman that Lockheed earned $4.1 million on $40.5 million in spare parts sales on the P-3 Orion in 1984, a pretax profit of slightly more than 10%, which Kitchen said “is not out of hand.”
Да, да так и отговариваются. При этом сиденья для унитазов в цене растут. Каждый раз забывают про эпоксидку с стекловолокном и про 3D принтеры, как в недавней истории про них же, но по 10000$ и 14000$.
И да, для тех кто не знает сколько стоит пресс форма отмазка прокатывает.