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Biggest and bluffest of the four executive vice presidents is balding, 61-year-old Marvin E. Coyle, known as "Mr. Facts & Figures." (Others: Ormond E. Hunt, 65, specialist in production problems, and Albert Bradley, 57, financial expert.) Last month Mr. Coyle went to Washington, where a Senate committee wanted to talk with him about G.M. profits (which hit an astronomical net of about $450 million last year). Neither apologetic nor apoplectic, Witness Coyle pointed out that G.M.'s prices had not been out of line, that there had also been "profits for the customer." He asked the Senators...
Then Navy Secretary Frank Knox, king of all he's-up-he's-down predictors, roared in his bluffest manner: "All talk about an early ending of the war is wishful thinking. It has caused a letup in production and we're already feeling the effects. . . .It's just criminal...
...called Empire Air Training Plan went into gear last week with the arrival in Ottawa of commissions from Australia and New Zealand. Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation was J. V. Fairbairn, Minister of Civil Aviation, a redheaded air fighter of World War I. Chief representative for Canada is Lieut. Colonel William Avery Bishop, V. C., honorary Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now 45, short, chubby, softspoken, he scarcely looks today like...
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