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...operation was overhauled; stockholders moved convivial George O'Day up to the chairmanship and brought in efficient Lyman Bullard, 41, a former textile executive, who has pared the payroll, streamlined the assembly line and installed cost accounting. This year, as a result, O'Day Corp. expects to make a $90,000 profit at last; there was a happy champagne celebration at the company's Fall River, Mass., factory last week when the 1,500th Day Sailer and the 1,000th Rhodes 19 both were hauled out of the plant. "From here on, it's downwind...
European finance. Jacob, 70, a reticent bachelor, stays in Stockholm to mind the home office, while robust and gregarious Marcus, 63, jets around the world to check on Wallenberg projects and find new investment opportunities. Though they hold the chairmanship of 27 companies, the brothers prefer to own no more than 5% or 10% of any company. They really do not need more, for most Swedish companies are only too ready to submit to Wallenberg management; they know that it means expert guidance and money for expansion. Says Marcus coolly: "It so happens that the companies we have been concerned...
Minihan was chairman of the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs, activities coordinator for the Quincy House Committee and a member of the Combined Charities board of overseers. A former junior usher, he holds the Procter and Gamble Scholarship. Under Minihan's chairmanship, the Council regained its prestige and efficiency in dealing both with student and Faculty...
This June, Whatmough will retire as chairman of the department. "I have no feelings of resistance about giving up the chairmanship," he muses. "The chances are I've held the reins long enough--perhaps to long." He admits that the job has been a great burden, if only because of the paperwork involved. "You know, all this paperwork nowadays is a result of the war. Some of our deans got to know the ways the army and navy did things, and they've introduced them here...
Governor Peabody's appointment of Edward Dana to the chairmanship of the M.T.A. trustees might increase Harvard's changes of purchasing the Bennett St. M.T.A. yards, a public official said in an interview yesterday...