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...newshawks waits outside the door. Their monthly meetings are devoted strictly to business, not to making publicity. The directors hear about broad company policies from their youthful, silver-haired chairman, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., keep up with production and sales operations by listening to tough-fibred, gregarious President Ben Fairless, learn about fiscal problems from their precise Finance Chairman Enders McClumpha Voorhees...
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...Steel Corp.'s Benjamin Fairless is dark, chunky, genial and tough. Cocking his head to one side and narrowing his eyes, the president of the firm which usually makes 35% of the nation's steel ingots is given to saying that the corporation ought to get a price high enough to cover costs. Last week, to explain prices to the TNEC, Ben Fairless produced an expert, University of Chicago Statistics Professor Theodore Ott Yntema. Substance of sharp-eyed, youthful Expert Yntema's very technical mathematical-metaphysical testimony: the corporation is burdened with large inflexible costs; steel sales...
...management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman John Gephart Munson, one of President Benjamin Fairless' new order of hardheaded operating men who believe in placating labor...
Although I have found TIME heretofore a very exacting magazine, I noticed an error in the Feb. 14 issue. The party, or "Mock Bachelors' Cotillion" as you termed it [which young Blaine Fairless, son of U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, helped organize], actually had a receiving line of young men [not young women] holding bouquets of vegetables. Mr. Fairless was one of this number...