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...faced Dan O. Druge, 42, stood up before an employers' manpower conference in San Francisco. Dan, who owns and operates the Druge Brothers Manufacturing Co. (automatic tire gauges) with his brother, likes to speak his mind. And on his mind last week was a subject that has become more & more pressing to many a Western businessman: the place of the West in the U.S. economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Gypping of the West? | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...Druge, like many another Westerner, believes that there exists a vast conspiracy in the East to keep the West Coast an undernourished industrial stepchild. The onset of World War II gave the West basic industries on a scale that it never had before, notably steel and aluminum. Then Westerners began to dream that the West was finally going to grow up industrially. But as the end of the war draws near with no definite plans announced to utilize fully those industries, many a Westerner has grown bitter and disillusioned. Last week Druge summed up that disillusionment and, in so doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Gypping of the West? | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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