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...Many people are proud because they are brave, but bravery without knowledge
...latest stout-heart to brave the business bogey of prefabricated housing is U.S. Steel Corp.'s dynamic, hardheaded president, Ben Fairless. Big Steel, which has never had any direct contact with the ultimate consumer, last week announced the purchase of a controlling interest in the Gunnison Housing Corp. of New Albany...
Said the wing commander: "It was a brave and gallant and heartbreaking thing...
Soap and Shoes. Almost everyone is for the annual wage - in principle. But only a trifling number of U.S. companies have been brave enough to try it out in fact. One of the first was Procter & Gamble (Crisco, Ivory Soap), in 1923. Its socially conscious president, the late William Cooper Procter, felt that the "outstanding evil" of the U.S. economic system was its in ability to provide steady employment, decided to guarantee all P. & G. workers 48 weeks of work a year. Working out such a plan was not simple. Although the consumer demand for soap is year-around, wholesalers...
...feel any one of these, I put it all aside as being relatively unimportant. These were brave men and they were dead. Bravery and death were linked together in a natural and inevitable sequence. It seemed as simple as that...