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...Allen in Cleveland. After everyone had talked and run up a sizable bill, it turned out that George Allen would not have to pay the charges after all. The call had come in and been charged while he was visiting the home of violently anti-New Deal Steelman Tom Girdler...
...bawled that the steel industry had ganged up to keep Kaiser-Frazer Corp. from making autos by refusing to sell it any steel. He asked Attorney General Thomas C. Clark to end "discrimination" against K-F. His partner Joe Frazer talked darkly that Republic Steel's Tom Girdler had said Kaiser's quick signing of labor contracts was "one reason why you are not getting any steel." Tom Girdler snorted: nonsense...
...double-breasted blue suit and zebra-striped tie, George waved to those he knew, graciously passed around a typed list of all his business connections, and sat down. He was on the board of Victor Emanuel's Aviation Corp., Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, altogether more than a score of corporations. His annual income: "Call it about $50,000 a year." He also belonged to the American Red Cross and the Boy Scouts of America and was an honorary deacon in Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux's Negro Church...
Hope Chest. Outstanding example of this was Tom Girdler's Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. It was also an outstanding example of the fact that in union there is often more money. For the year 1943 (excluding Vultee profits before the two companies merged last March), Board Chairman Girdler reported profits of $19,268,000, compared to $7,004,000 for both companies for the entire year 1942. Earnings per share of common stock jumped from...
...Chairman Girdler took pains to point out that this glowing record was made despite whacking reductions of $171,000,000 in the price of planes. On top of that, Consolidated funneled $80,000,000 out of profits into a special renegotiation reserve. Cautious Mr. Girdler stated that he hopes this will be sufficient to cover any refunds caused by renegotiation...