The most feasible means of cost reduction seem to lie in 

 improved methods of rubber-fairing production. The Navy has 

 recently contracted with the Marsh and Marine Manufacturing 

 Company of Houston, Texas for the development of a new manu- 

 facturing technique and the production of sample fairing 

 lengths. This development has been discussed with represen- 

 tatives of Marsh and Marine; they expect their studies to 

 lead to production of clip-type fairing at considerably re- 

 duced cost. 



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