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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short, chubby, beetle-browed Bernard Iddings Bell, 56, went to the University of Chicago, was a chaplain at the Great Lakes Naval Station in the last war. Then for 14 years he headed St. Stephen's College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. With the help of the late Metropolitan Life Insurance president Haley Fiske, and the late vaudeville impresario Edward Albee, Bell raised about a million dollars to revolutionize the St. Stephen's faculty and methods. But the depression spoiled his alans and Columbia University took over :he college, renamed it Bard...
Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island made Bell an honorary canon of St. John's Cathedral, Providence. But of late years he has steered clear of parochial duties. Bell offends some listeners by his acid speech, Socialist ideas and condescending manner. He also lost a great deal of his popularity in Britain by constant gibes at imperialism...
...citizens of Atlanta have watched for months the building of one of the biggest things that man has ever made: Bell Aircraft's Marietta Aircraft Assembly Plant, which rivals and may even exceed Ford's famed but fumbling Willow...
Another experiment in airplane mass production, the success or failure of the Marietta plant revolves around a dynamic man in a dynamic industry-Lawrence Dale Bell, 48, founder, inspiration and chief owner of Buffalo's fabulous Bell Aircraft Corp. Just as the Army had three big reasons for building the new plant in Georgia (power, labor supply and airport facilities), so did they have bedrock reasons for choosing Larry Bell...
Pipsqueak to Airacobra. Born in pipsqueak Mentone, Ind., Larry Bell was so aviation-crazy he went from high school to work in the Glenn L. Martin plant, barged ahead to shop foreman when only 18, then vice president and general manager. In 1928 he switched to Consolidated Aircraft in Buffalo, got along famously until 1935, when the company decided to move to San Diego, concentrate on flying boats. But Larry liked Buffalo and speedy landplanes. So he decided to stay put, start his own company with some Consolidated leftover personnel. It was a nightmare grind...