Word: batt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hastily, WPB Vice Chairman Bill Batt, who is also president of the U.S. subsidiary SKF Industries, Inc., flew to Philadelphia. Flanked by Army and Navy offi cials, he stood on a flag-bedecked plat form to assure his 8,000 workers that SKF Industries is an "American company operated by American people." The Treasury and the Alien Property Custodian, which have been quietly probing SKF Industries, chimed in with praise for its "excellent'' war record. But many a question about SKF was still unanswered...
Control to Batt. Of one thing there was little doubt - President Batt controls SKF Industries completely. In April 1940, when it appeared that the Nazis would in vade Sweden, he began negotiations with SKF (Sweden), which is 99.5% Swedish-owned, and which then owned 74% of SKF Industries and another subsidiary, SKF Steel. At Batt's request, SKF turned over to him its U.S. holdings, in trust, till war's end. Last week Batt brushed off rumors that the real boss of SKF Industries is Count Hugo von Rosen, whose brother is a Swedish quisling. Said Batt: Count...
...Form the Battalion" will start its career tomorrow morning when the new stripers will be announced. Just between us, let's speculate on Rehurek for Battalion Commander; Hoffman for Sub-Batt Commander, Bryan for Company 3 "Hep-ster," Wanvig to take over for Company 4, with Bergen and Harty for Company 3 Platoon Leaders, and Stallard and Moss for Company...
Theodore Chadwick, Jr., assisted by Gilbert King and A. C. Petite, will command the 1st Battalion quartered in Eliot House, while the mixed NROTC pre-med contingents of the 2nd Battalion are headed by Batt. Commdr. Dean M. Hennesey, Sub-Commdr. Bruce A. Cameron, and Adjutant L. E. Smart...
...entrenched guard. On its general staff were New Deal intellectuals like Milton Katz, just another member of the WPB legal staff, actually Nelson's chief legal adviser; there was Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, Planner Bob Nathan, Statistician Simon Kuznetz, and at least one former businessman, Vice Chairman William L. Batt. Behind the scenes they campaigned and politicked to throw Eberstadt out, put Wilson...