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Egyptian small fry zestfully played a new game. The kid who was "it" would walk down the street with a stick over his shoulder, imitating a British soldier. The others would sneak up behind, belabor him violently and grab his "rifle," shouting, "Die, Inglesi...
...boss of Chicago's fast-growing Hotpoint, Inc. likes nothing better than to grab a sale away from giant General Electric Co. What gives James J. Nance the kick is the fact that G.E. owns Hotpoint lock, stock and dishwasher. But nobody would ever know this to watch Hotpoint's Jim Nance. He is responsible to G.E., but he operates Hotpoint as if he bossed an independent company. He has his own board of directors, runs his own sales and engineering staff, maps his own strategy...
...distributed profits) cannot solve all the industry's problems of cut-price competition. Some 14,000 members of the California Fruit Growers Exchange have sunk $4,000,000 into Sunkist's processing machinery. But the exchange, which recently set below-cost retail prices to try to grab the frozen concentrate market away from the older eastern brands, is losing money, and orange growers are squawking...
Fairless' managing technique was to let men talk their grievances out, and if that didn't work, throw them out. Once he called two men in to talk over a quarrel. "When I made a grab for the other guy," one of the disputants recalls, "Ben grabbed me by the neck and threw me out of his office." He was tough in other ways. When pickets under William Z. Foster-then an A.F.L. organizer, now the top U.S. Communist-tried to close down the plant to organize it, Fairless decided that the best way to break...
Fairless became a crack salesman for Central Steel, thought up ingenious tricks to grab business, often from under U.S. Steel's nose. By the time he was 38, Fairless was president of Central. When Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton combined it with his new Republic Steel in 1930, Fairless became executive vice president of the new giant. Soon Big Steel's Myron Taylor discovered that wherever Big Steel was losing business, it was frequently losing it to Fairless. Taylor went after him, and hired...