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Eyebrows & Aluminum. Though McGinnis does not have much elbow room on the board of directors, he does not need much. Smooth, sharp-witted and a proven good railroader, he knows the business from roundhouse to board room. The son of a New York Central foreman, he learned to specialize in railroad securities, now bosses his own Wall Street firm, commuting by ferry from a sprawling, century-old mansion on Staten Island, overlooking New York Harbor. Railroaders rate him as a top authority on financing, call his book (Guide to Railroad Reorganization) the best in the field. Sometimes he operates with...
...staying until 5:30 p.m. Instead of resentment, they won admiration. Said one craftsman: "They muck in. They don't ask you to do anything they wouldn't do themselves. They will take tools out of your hands and do a job for themselves. An English foreman wouldn't do that...
...simply listened." Dual Allegiance. The workers' No. i want, the listener learned, was steady work, without layoffs or cuts in hours or pay. Next to dependable income, what the workers wanted most was to be treated with dignity-not bossed around. Time and again they denned a good foreman as one who "leaves us alone" and who "listens...
Bethke began to learn about type at the age of eleven in Groton, S. Dak., when he got a job as printer's devil on the local paper, the Groton Independent. His tutor was Shop Foreman John Thoeny, who now owns the paper. Bethke worked before and after school and all day Saturday for a salary of $3 a week. He began to learn hand composition, then linotype, layout and makeup. After graduating from high school, he worked as editor of the paper for a year before going to Dakota Wesleyan University. During summers he toured the Midwest...
Four years ago Baker Bedrich Cech's daughter had slipped out of the country alone to marry an American G.I. Because of her flight, Bedrich's bakery was confiscated. The old man went to work for his son Marian, the foreman of a local lumberyard, and came to realize that the lumberyard itself provided an ideal avenue of escape for himself and his family. A flatcar of lumber due for export, he reasoned, could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling...