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Warm Relations. Crawford has been just as successful at handling human problems. Although union organizers denounced him, Crawford regarded himself is an old-fashioned liberal, who distrusted any encroachment on his freedom including unions. "The more each person can take care of himself," says Crawford "the stronger we'll be." He rewarded sensible suggestions from his workers, made swift promotions of promising men. He set up pensions, medical dispensaries, provided good food in company restaurants at cheap prices. He talked with workers to get their gripes, often made shop addresses to keep them informed. In such talks Crawford likes...
Thompson's boss, Frederick C. (for Coolidge) Crawford, 62, onetime (1943) president of the N.A.M., is as full of zip and noise as a racing engine. In the head-cracking '30s, he defeated every attempt of the C.I.O. or A.F.L. to organize his plants, damned unions and the New Deal. His tart tongue often got him into other trouble; on a World War II visit to France he denounced resistance forces as Communist bandits...
...Crawford stirred up so many controversies that people often failed to notice an important fact: his company is not only well run but also among the fastest-growing in the U.S. By last week it had grown so big that President Crawford needed more help with day-to-day duties, more time for big decisions. He moved himself into the new job of chairman, moved his longtime right-hand man, John D. Wright, 47, into the presidency. Said Chairman Crawford, who is still top policy man: "In this business, you've got to live in the future...
Frozen Mercury. Fred Crawford, civil engineer (Harvard, '14), joined Thompson as a millwright's helper in 1916. Under one of its founders, an ex-welder named Charles E. Thompson, the 15-year old company had already built a tidy business making auto valves. In World War I, its business almost doubled, and Thompson branched into aircraft, making valves for France's Spad fighters. By 1929, when the Thompson Trophy was created for Cleveland's National Air Races, Crawford had moved up to vice president and general manager. At Thompson's death* in 1933, Crawford took...
...growth was due to World War II, when Thompson doubled its size almost overnight with a new $30 million government-built plant. But it was also due to the fact that engineer Crawford proved himself an expert manager. He brought in able young men, gave them room to grow, encouraged initiative. New President Wright, for example, started in with a Cleveland law firm as a legal consultant to Thompson, soon won a $100,000 tax refund for the company. Impressed, Crawford took him on as his own assistant when he became president, gave him ever-growing responsibility...