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...Cameron Hawley (Executive Suite) has fashioned the better book around an up-to-the-minute brand of millionaire. Cash McCall is a jut-jawed dynamo who buys depressed companies cheap, jacks them up into profitable operation and sells them dear. Men who do not know him hate him and call him nasty names, e.g., "operator," "raider," "wrecker...
CASH McCALL (444 pp.)-Cameron Hawley-Houghfon Mifflin...
Cork, Author Hawley has a knowing way with business lingo. While Cash and Lory's vapid love scenes tax patience as well as belief, the vitality of Cash McCall rests in its forceful portrait of a venture capitalist who is as remote from a backslapping booster as Reinhold Niebuhr is from Norman Vincent Peale...
...term goal, laid out by Ben Fairless: expanding U.S. Steel's annual capacity from 38.9 million tons to 60.9 million tons by 1975-just to keep pace with the growing population. Blough, who likes his golf and spends as much time as possible at his country home in Hawley, Pa., where he often cooks for his wife and two daughters, professed to be unexcited by his new job. Said he: "It isn't as if the Pittsburgh Pirates won a ball game...
...traditional Mormon missionary stint in England for two years, and then returned to Utah for further study. In 1929 he attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. At the same time, he worked for Massachusetts Senator David Walsh on tariff matters, doing much of the spadework on the famed Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. The next year he joined Aluminum Co. of America, among other jobs was a door-to-door salesman in Los Angeles before returning to Washington as a lobbyist for the company when it was investigated on antitrust charges in 1937. He joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association...