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...Steel-owned American Steel & Wire Co. in 1917, Hood served as that firm's president for twelve years (1938-49) before moving over to the top post of another subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. In 1951 he was responsible for the construction of the $400 million Fairless Works near Morrisville, Pa., one of the largest steel complexes ever built, and two years later he won the presidency of "Big Steel...
...Fairless Hills...
...Lester, of Teaneck, N.J. (Chemistry and Physics); Robert H. Rodgers, of New Haven, Vermont (Classics); William H. Smock, of Ithaca, N.Y. (English); Richard S. Stein, of Lincolnwood, Ill. (Social Relations); Robert S. Stern, of Springfield (Economics); Robert E. Strom, of New York City (Philosophy); Robert B. Waterbor, of Fairless Hills, Pa. (Physics), and John A. Williams, of Rye. N.Y. (English...
...management. In the 63 years since J. P. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie for $500 million and brought in Judge Elbert Gary to organize U.S. Steel, the company has been guided mostly by lawyers and bankers. Of the six chairmen in its history, only one-the late Ben Fairless -ever worked regularly in a steel mill and was not a lawyer. Says a vice president of a competing steel company: "The operating people simply do not have an equal voice. The corporation would do much better if they...
...asking Lewis for one of his eyebrows to use as a toupee. Eventually Lewis backed down, and today the two old antagonists are friends. Hanging from the wall of Love's Pittsburgh office is an unlikely trinity of photographs: George Humphrey, U.S. Steel's late Ben Fairless and John L. Says Love: "I like to say that I made an enlightened labor leader out of John. And he likes to say that he made...