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I contacted Joe to find out if this was true and if the salary

being offered to me was subject to the 10% reduction.
Joe informed me two days later that unfortunately the
salary reduction did apply to the offer and hoped that

would not change my acceptance of the job. I told Joe
that it did matter and I could not accept. I called my boss
at TIMET, pleaded to keep my job, and begged

forgiveness. TIMET agreed to keep me on, mainly
because they had no replacement for me. Six months later,
this job change cycle repeated, with the 10% reinstated,

and I returned to the Douglas fold. But there is still one
last story to tell of my life with TIMET.

DON’T FOLLOW THAT TRUCK!

In the interim after I turned down Douglas’ offer and got
my job back, some interesting stuff happened. One of our
other marketing folk that also had a secret clearance

started turning up on the west coast occasionally, but
would not discuss who he was seeing, or what he was
doing in my territory. One time he had in his possession

what I recognized as a cracked frame and longeron from
an aircraft type structure that he was taking to our research
labs at Henderson, Nevada. When I asked what airframe

that was from he said he said he could not discuss it!