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Thus the Danish immigrant who started out as a shipyard worker at $1.75 a day, rose to the $350,000-a-year presidency of the nation's biggest manufacturing corporation, handed over command of the U.S. war effort to a locomotive engineer's son from Hannibal, Mo., who had wanted to be a professor of chemistry, but who became, as the $70,000-a-year manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the country's No. 1 mass-buyer...
...Lewis and Mr. Green was the chief stumbling block to a reunion of labor. According to one published plan, the new president of accoupled labor would be A.F. of L.'s Secretary-Treasurer George Meany; Mr. Green would be turned out to pasture on a $20,000-a-year pension; Machiavellian Mr. Lewis would get a vice-presidency; Mr. Murray, to whom the whole thing came as a complete surprise, and who had good reason to believe he was in the middle of a squeeze play, would be offered the secretary-treasurer...
...Managerial Migration. By year's end some 300 U.S. businessmen had taken $1-a-year jobs in Washington. The number who went to Washington in search of priorities, defense contracts or mere information passed all count. The Mayflower Hotel's 1941 telephone bill was $300,000, 50% more than 1940, 200% more than 1929; and its total liquor sales, which were $410,000 in 1940, rose...
...businessmen grasped the dimensions of total war sooner than most labor leaders in 1941. But the quickest to do so were not business' social servants, the $1-a-year ambassadors to the New Deal. They were the Old Guard, whose hatred of Roosevelt kept them out of Washington altogether...
...Bright James S. Adams, 44, was elected president of Standard Brands (Fleischmann's Yeast, Chase & Sanborn coffee). A flyer in World War I, he was for six years an adman (Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...