Word: hiland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid this enthusiastic bustle last week was a sober note. Said WPB Chief of Operations Hiland G. Batcheller: the switch to a one-front war should involve little loss in employment or income. But after V-J day business will be on its own, and this is when the real test will come...
...year job as president of General Electric. Well aware that production of planes, rubber, radio and trucks still lags, Charlie Wilson also knew that he had successfully pulled U.S. production through. Said he: the big job is done; went back to General Electric. Also resigning : Hiland G. Batcheller, WPB operational vice chairman (back to Allegheny -Ludlum Steel Corp.). W. B. Murphy, WPB deputy production vice chairman and Wilson's "bottleneck buster" (back to Campbell Soup...
...Alloy. The appointment of tall dapper Hiland Garfield Batcheller, 57 to boss WPB's important Iron & Steel Branch seemed to make certain that WPB would throw its hopelessly confusing priority system out the window, set up a rigid allocations plan under which each manufacturer will get a quota that sticks...
When the WPB realignment loomed Secretary Knox called up Hiland Batcheller in Pittsburgh, told him a Government plane would be there at noon to take him to Washington. The reason for this urgency was not hard to guess. Batcheller as president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. is head of a company that is relatively small in the steel industry but one of the biggest companies in the realm of alloy steel. As an expert in alloy steelmaking he is invaluable, for in the steel bottleneck the real choke is in alloy steels (for armor plate and many a vital part...
...iron & steel branch, Hiland Garfield Batcheller, president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp., adviser on steel to the Army & Navy Munitions Board...