[ARC5] Selectivity improvement in ARC-5 receivers - anotherquestion.

[gordon white]

    You might fault Drake for not accepting the Navy's offer to build a 
much bigger plant for A.R.C., thus tossing the bigger contracts to WECo. 
But at the end of the war,  what would A.R.C. have looked like? As we 
know, aircraft production plummeted and the expected postwar boom in 
private aviation really did not come about.

     A.R.C suffered under the excess profits taxes and recapture 
provisions of WW II taxes, having been small before the war. The real 
profits during the war went to companies that had no pre-war record.

     Yes, Drake was a wheeler-dealer. Having the top AF brass to dinner 
and having contracts written in the 1930s to favor A.R.C. - Probably 
illegal today, but today's defense contracting is all about bureaucracy 
and politics, not performance.

  - Gordon Eliot White