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...Though Greenewalt is chairman of the potent executive committee, he has only one vote on it. Fluent and articulate, he must sometimes use all of his persuasiveness to win a majority to his side. Like the Supreme Court, the committee sometimes splits 5 to 4, and heated arguments develop. When they do, says one committeeman, "Crawford usually grabs the ball and starts talking. He's an excellent filibusterer." When tempers subside, Greenewalt steers the talk to some new problem, brings up the contested one later...
...ninth floor of Wilmington's Du Pont Building. It meets all day, lunching with top men from the line departments and lower-echelon people who get to know the top command in this fashion. The top command also learns to know those in the lower echelons. Says Greenewalt: "I started looking for my successor the first year I was in office...
Heads on a Skimmer. Each year the company scours U.S. colleges for their ablest men, lures about 350, has gradually moved its requirements so high that Greenewalt quips: "If we had had the same system then, I couldn't have got in." Beginners' pay is low ($317 a month for a B.S., $375 for an M.S.), but advancement can be fast. Once a man breaks ahead of his average age & salary group, his name will pop up on a "skimmer chart" which Greenewalt constantly consults. That man is then moved around departments to broaden his experience. Greenewalt...
...Brightest?" Greenewalt came naturally by his scientific bent. His father, Dr. Frank Greenewalt, was resident physician at Philadelphia's Girard College. His mother, the former Mary Elizabeth Hallock, was a concert pianist, and patented her own invention, the use of varicolored lighting to harmonize with the moods of music. Both parents were old friends of Wilmington's Du Ponts; Mrs. Greenewalt's sister, Ethel Hallock, had married William K. du Pont, brother of Pierre, Lammot...
President Greenewalt, one of the key men in the Hanford project, flatly said that Du Pont had not wanted to take on the new job. It had done so only "upon assurances from highest governmental sources that the project is of vital importance" to the U.S. The reasons for Du Pont's reluctance were plain. It did not want to risk having the "merchant of death" tag pinned on it again. Nor did it have any desire to hand more ammunition to Fair Deal trustbusters who have filed three suits attempting to break up the Du Pont organization. Last...