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...hands of a Dutch mayonnaise executive (vice president and general manager of Hellmann's) named Maus R. Van Benschoten. He has been peering through his horn-rimmed spectacles for strategic materials tied up in railroad yards, warehouses, backyards. By last week he had almost finished. On his desk, hundreds of pink slips showed such "frozen" items as 20,000,000 lb. of copper sheets, ingots, wire, etc., 27,500,000 lb. of tin plate and 4,000,000 lb. of pig tin, "vast quantities" of rubber, silk, wool, hides, chemicals...
...Jobs 2 & 3, if successfully finished, would make these "vast quantities" look like peanuts. They were both under the supervision of Van Benschoten's boss, Ernest Tupper, OPM's tall, blond Coordinator of Industry & Commodity Research. Ernie Tupper is surveying 1) industry's inventories, and 2) those of the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission. By last week, his industry surveys (86,000 firms were questioned) were almost all in, but untabulated. They had already turned up some interesting preliminary unbalances: pulp and paper mills with ten months' supply of lead; 59 printing-machinery plants with nine...
...side of the map. That, too, went on the table. It was a good idea. C. E. Welch,† grape juice man, took his watch to the table. He was followed by a Vice President of the Pennsylvania R. R., A. M. Shoyer; by a lawyer, W. H. Van Benschoten; by a glovemaker, W. J. Stitt; by other Bishops, Lowe and Badley. Announcement of this watch-giving was sent to all Methodism. The Treasurer said he would operate the biggest pawnbroking business in the country. Every member of the Church was asked to send his watch to the Treasurer...
Decided to send a special delegation to Washington to urge stricter Prohibition: Bishop Nicholson of Chicago, Bishop Leonard of San Francisco, Judge Pollock of Fargo, N.D., William H. Van Benschoten of New York, Rev. Clarence True Wilson, Secretary of the Church's Temperance Board...
...expenses of this school, and twelve of them were represented. The delegates were: Professors Seymour and Perrin of Yale, Goodwin and White of Harvard, Sloan of Princeton, Hale of Chicago, Fuller of Western Reserve, Fernald of Williams, Sterrell of Amherst, Wheeler of University of Vermont, Poland of Brown, Van Benschoten of Wesleyan, and Miss Slater of Mount Holyoke. Reports were made from the directors of the school at Athens, showing the work that had been done the past year, and it was decided to offer a fellowship, which shall be awarded by competitive examination to the successful candidate from...