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...worked briefly as an operating clerk in the Worcester (Mass.) plant of Big Steel's American Steel & Wire Co. subsidiary, then went off to war as an artillery private (he came back a lieutenant). At war's end, he went back to American Steel & Wire as plant foreman, soon worked up to boss the works. Then, as district operations manager, he piled up such a production record that in 1935 he was moved to Steel & Wire's Cleveland headquarters as vice president, won the top job in 1938. Two years ago, Hood moved up to command...
Business Career: Started as a lumberjack with the Black River Lumber Co. in south Vermont, advanced to logging foreman, moved up to company treasurer in 1921. As treasurer, he trimmed the budget so effectively that he was grabbed off by the parent company, the Parker-Young Co. of Lincoln. N.H.; rose to be general manager...
Lyons himself mainly rubs shoulders with the highly paid, highly skilled workers in his huge plant. No detail escapes his cost-conscious eye. When a foreman built himself a partitioned office for his paper work, Lyons tore it down. "A foreman should be on the floor," he said, "pushing blokes to do things." Added Lyons: "If I let him have his office, he'll soon want a girl to do typing for him. Next it will be another girl to assist the first one; before you knew where you were, you'd have six people in each department...
...said she had married Pa against her better judgment: "That man . . . wouldn't take no for an answer." Pa's story was a little different. "I was keeping company with your mother ... in Cleveland [but I] was promised a job by Bad-Eyed Bill Guiness, who was foreman of a foundry in Oil City, Pa. So I told your mother that I was getting out of town again and she started to cry her head off, so we got married. What in hell else could...
...snarled in a series of mistakes made by all three parties, I think. I know we made some, and there were some made by our Government." He congratulated the steelworkers on "the friendliest strike I have ever heard of," and told of an incident at McKeesport, Pa., where a foreman ran out of a struck plant and begged the lone picket to call the union hall and get them to send out a striking plumber to deal with some emergency. The picket replied that he could not leave his post untended. The foreman grabbed the picket's sign...