Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. General Brehon Burke Somervell, 62, $110,000-a-year chairman and president of Koppers Co., Inc., and World War II chief of the Army's Services of Supply; after long illness; in Ocala...
...Depression layoff. The Depression brought him his first public job, as director of the Emergency Relief Administration in New Jersey's Union County. In 1936 he returned to Western Electric as a clerk, but soon moved on to personnel training. Two years later Lieut. Colonel Brehon Somervell, then New York administrator of the Works Progress Administration, hired him as labor-relations adviser. He managed to keep the New York WPA going despite the trouble caused by strike-happy, left-wing factions among WPA workers. Somervell took him to Washington in 1941, put him in charge of labor relations...
Somervell's Folly. The Pentagon was built in a wartime hurry for the wartime Army. The Army's Engineer General Brehon Somervell (now retired and president of Koppers Co.) drove the work at a prodigious clip. The first offices were occupied in seven months; the job completed in 16. Some 300 architects had a hand in its design. It has five floors, each of which is painted a distinctive color-powder blue, grey, peach, green and tan. It has 7,370 windows, but it is entirely air-conditioned by a unique system, regulated by electronic "eyes...