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MacDac (as we called them) had nothing to bring to the table. They had lean-sized their operation so much that when orders began to increase for their DC-9s and DC-10s, they had no production capacity with which to increase the output. When the merger happened, it meant the doom of the former Douglas aircraft component.
The bright idea was that by merging, the Company would be more "balanced" with respect to civilian and military production, one side going up to balance the other going down, in the characteristic waves of the industry. The only problem is that the work forces were not co-located, so there was never any benefit of real balance.