Word: boeschenstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most WPBigwigs are going back to their prewar jobs: Field Operations Vice Chairman James A. Folger to his coffee company in San Francisco ; Operations Vice Chairman Harold Boeschenstein to the presidency of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Co. WPB has set up an employment agency to help place smaller fry, has found industry eager to snap them up. Cap Krug has been offered a job with Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., was rumored to be dickering with Atlas Corp., but he has not yet decided what he will do. "I'm as obsolete as a machine gun," said Cap Krug...
...Future, No Action. Trim, 47-year-old Mr. Boeschenstein was drafted late in 1942 from the presidency of rich, war-busy Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., which he and Amory Houghton put together in 1938 to exploit Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass Works' progressive research in glass fibers...
...figures boiled down to a 1944 first-quarter reserve of only 10,979 tons, a margin of only 1.3%. These figures disposed of publishers' fears that Donald Nelson and Harold Boeschenstein were dragging the U.S. into the newsprint business...
Tougher, Tighter. Boeschenstein, after five months in his paper-cutting post, had served notice that he was running a tougher and tighter Printing and Publishing Division...
...nation's 1,800 daily newspapers, 9,000 to 10,000 weeklies, 7,750 magazines, the untotaled house organs are but a small part of calm Mr. Boeschenstein's troubles. He also has to deal with a multiplicity of other problems inherent in many other uses of wood products: from income-tax forms and war bonds to delivery of paper-wrapped ammunition in wooden boxes and V-boxes. His efforts go not alone to an equitable chopping of the wood pile, but also to prodding production toward a larger pile...