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Pint-sized, grey-haired Arthur D. Whiteside, the 61-year-old President of credit raters Dun & Bradstreet, last week came out as a spokesman for all U.S. businessmen who fear the future. Fresh from a year as WPB's Chief of Civilian Requirements, he spoke to the potent American Retail Federation (representing 500,000 retailers) at its annual meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. His thesis: the U.S. Government should control civilian goods production "on the basis of 1939" for two to three years after...
...such a job that in 1939 "friends in Dun & Bradstreet" asked him to run Baltimore's 72-year-old and-limping C. D. Kenny Co., wholesale grocers. He soon controlled the company. In 1942 he bought into Chicago's Sprague, Warner Co., the Midwest's biggest wholesale grocer, and merged it with Kenny...
...Foundation and what keeps it ticking, Lawson says it is a nonprofit organization which gets its funds by selling his lucubrations. Improbable as that may seem, the Direct Credits Society's rating is no joke to Dun & Bradstreet. On that score at least, Des Moines had nothing to lose. Said one practical businessman last week: "If he's got money to spend, let him spend it here...
Donald Marr Nelson chose a new vice chairman for WPB last week and thereby underlined one of the biggest unsolved war problems now facing the nation. The new WPBureaucrat: short, sharp-eyed Arthur Dare Whiteside, president of credit-raters Dun & Bradstreet. His backbreaking job: to see that U.S. civilians are supplied with enough really essential goods and services so that war production does not suffer...
Last week, with no fanfare at all, 101-year-old Dun & Bradstreet (which grew out of the Mercantile Agency) celebrated ts first anniversary of special sleuthing for he U.S. Government and its war contractors. D. & B.'s 7,000 trained investigators are now answering some 100,000 inquiries a month for war agencies and contractors, thus freeing J. Edgar Hoover's G-men for more sinister detective problems. D. & B.'s sleuthing involves no special FBI or police-court tactics, but its routine provides a careful check on where people have traveled, and what their jobs, friends...