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CHARLES F. FINNEY...
Tall, white-haired James Finney Lincoln of Cleveland is a hard man to his foes-and a gold mine to his employes. His obsession on incentive pay has led him into one head-on collision after another with the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. Navy, and even the U.S. Congress (TIME, June 8, 1942). But it has also been responsible, he unshakably believes, for making his Lincoln Electric Co. the world's biggest, lowest-cost producer of electric welding equipment...
...think that's Eben Finney," replied his sour, dour friend. "And Frankely, I think we'd better get behind a Sandbach; here comes a Tiger aerial bomb...
...ears. Valedictorian of his high-school class at Portland, Ore., he is now the Red Sox's No. 1 public speaker, having delivered some 40 speeches at banquets, luncheons, club meetings. But little Pesky is still awed by his big-league teammates, especially Bobby Doerr and Lou Finney, whose shoes he used to shine when he was a "clubhouse punk" for the Portland Beavers...
...James Finney Lincoln is the biggest maker of electrodes and welding equipment in the U.S., and he likes to intone that "the labor cost of any product can be reduced to zero" through inciting workers to make continuous improvements in production method and design...