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Arriving in Princeton, N.J. one night last week, Leon Henderson's heart was warm with pride and sentiment. Thinking of the nice things old Barney Baruch had said about him that day, he joined his dinner hosts in a glowing mood. Before the evening was over, Leon's cup of sentiment was overflowing. For the dinner celebrated the 100th anniver sary of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. of Trenton. And Leon (born in Millville) is a Jersey...
Some of the methods of Barney Baruch's World War I Industries Board have been adopted to good advantage: wood screw manufacturers have agreed to eliminate 507 of the 885 sizes and types they now make. This will enable them to increase production 25% without adding new machines or workers. McConnell's office also has been working with Army and Navy men in an attempt to eliminate unnecessary use of aluminum (as in battleship trimmings) and other scarce materials in military specifications...
...aluminum, chrome, nickel-not to mention hours of skilled labor and machine tools -needed for defense. In Army and Navy files were scores of cases where military contracts were delayed while parts manufacturers completed orders for Detroit. Last week J. Leonard Replogle, tough-minded director of steel supply on Barney Baruch's World War I Industries Board, called 1941's heavy automobile production "an inexcusable performance. . . . Will some German historian of the future write: . . . their business-as-usual policy was responsible for their unpreparedness . . . they did not understand...
Before anyone had time to make much capital of this point, another test case proved the opposite. The Philadelphia Co. offered $48,000,000 of 4½% bonds, $12,000,000 of serial notes. The bonds were won competitively by a Kuhn, Loeb and Smith, Barney group for 100.3375, the notes by Mellon Securities and First Boston Corp. for 100.07. Next day the underwriters reported unusually high takings by small dealers, as well as by the public...
...started making Chevrolets in 1911, lost faith in the car's future, stepped out of Chevrolet Motor Co. three years later and then sold all his holdings. One of the world's great drivers, he entered his first race in 1905 as a substitute, outdrove famous Barney Oldfield, set a record of 68 m.p.h...