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Frazer's "associates" include David Baird, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, insurance brokers, and Floyd Odium, Boyd Hatch and Oswald L. Johnston, all of Atlas Corp. But Atlas itself is putting no money into Graham-Paige stock. Atlas Corp.'s June 30 statement showed a heavy cash position. The purchases were made by Atlas officers and directors as "personal investments...
Wrong Night. In Bryn Mawr, Pa., George Baird, returning from a party at 5 a.m., banged at the back door, was greeted with gunfire. Hospitalized, he learned that he had returned to the wrong house in the wrong town...
...crew were killed in the crash. The other six, wounded, made their way to New Britain's coast. Their chief worry was capture. Sometimes they were so close to Jap troops, said 2nd Lieut. Marvin Hughes of Baird, Tex., "we could have whistled at them." Once they hid on one side of a narrow stream and watched Japs eating breakfast on the other side. Two of the six were finally captured. Another died...
...Baird and Engler contrived to do all their war work without one penny of Government funds for new equipment. When they needed new machines they rigged up their own Rube Goldberg contraptions (Baird is proudest of a crane he made out of pulleys', sash cords and weights from Texas Washer windows). They bought their materials jointly, ran production lines from one plant into the other. Recently they were thrilled to hear that they were due for an Army-Navy E to reward their joint efforts (the first dual plant award in the U.S. and the first Ordnance award...
...Baird and Engler, who both have terrible tempers, almost came to blows deciding whose plant to use for the ceremonies, whose could fly the E flag thereafter. Major Dinwiddie intervened with a Solomon's solution. Next week their neighborhood movie house will play a new kind of double feature: on that neutral ground the Army will present an E flag apiece to Wayne Baird and Anthony Engler...