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Pepsodent Smile. The $17,500 post was Eric Johnston's first Government job. But he was no stranger to the national stage. He had first flashed on to the scene in the late 1930s, a handsome, vigorous young industrialist at war with the air of uneasiness and discomfort then clouding the American business world. A capitalist who was willing to preach capitalism when other U.S. businessmen were hiding behind slogans and cursing the New Deal, he had built four businesses of his own in the Pacific Northwest, then rode out to champion the cause of business, small and large...
...year, MacArthur, had blundered and been beaten. Nor a scientist, for science-so sure at the century's beginning that it had all the answers-now waited for the politicians (or anyone else) to find a way of controlling the terrible power that science had released. Nor an industrialist, for 1950, although it produced more goods than any other year in the world's history, was not preoccupied with goods, but with life & death. Nor a scholar, for the world of 1950 was surfeited with undigested facts, and sought its salvation not in the conquest of new knowledge...
Only a month after paying off the last of a $123 million RFC loan on his Fontana steel mill, Industrialist Henry Kaiser was back hat in hand last week knocking on RFC's door. This time he wanted $38 million for his auto company, Kaiser-Frazer, which already owes RFC $43 million. K-F President Edgar Kaiser explained that the company needs the money to tide it over until it can sell its backlog of 18,000 cars. He said that the Government's credit restrictions had slowed up its sales so much that...
...reached a salary settlement with the board, he would resign as requested. But Pasadena was in for a surprise. For the first time, hundreds of citizens who had remained silent began writing and phoning their protests to the board. A group of businessmen and churchmen, led by wealthy Industrialist Philip S. Fogg, formed a Citizens' Action Committee in Goslin's behalf, packed a meeting of the board to demand that Goslin stay...
Detroit has been without a major orchestra since its main symphony backer, Industrialist Henry H. Richhold (chemicals), pulled out, purse and person (TIME, Sept. 5, 1949). Last week, following the lead of Detroit music critics, the town was beginning to get fired up over the idea of trying again. J. Dorsey Callaghan, the Detroit Free Press critic, even went so far as to ask "a conductor whose musical reputation is an international one" as to his availability for a job. In answer to his question, old (76) Serge Koussevitzky, who turned over his Boston Symphony to Charles Munch last year...