La Machine Summary and Analysis

West was becoming very irritable due to the pressure of the Eagle. There were prototypes of the Eagle and the machine was in the debugging stage. They had some extra help from their New Hampshire plant and the Hardy Boys were working two shifts in addition to the group working regularly on Saturdays. The problem for West was that the Eagle was a different kind of machine and he didn't know how to debug it and he had his doubts about the staff. West had to learn how to trust his staff and that was hard for him.

The Westborough group won a victory over the North Carolina facility when word got around that the FHP groups was going to miss their deadline. This enhanced the Eagle's importance to the company and made it more imperative that the April...