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...members of the 30-man Board are George Whitney '07, of New York, president of J. P. Morgan Co. Inc.; Dr. George P. Denny '09, of Boston, a physician; Clarence B. Randall '12, of Chicago, vice-President of the Inland Steel Co.; Robert E. Gross '19, of Los Angeles, president and chairman of the board of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; and Amory Houghton '21, of Corning, N. Y. chairman of the board of Corning Glass Works...
...What has Mr. Attlee's Government done so far that we haven't been doing? Last week it passed its bill nationalizing all inland transport. Well, some 20 years ago our House of Commons passed a bill nationalizing one of our transcontinental railways [Canadian National, which has a total of 32,103 track miles, also has holdings in steamships, hotels and summer resorts] and since then we've nationalized our air transport, both inland and overseas...
Across the nation strikes flickered here & there. But they were mostly the normal sparks from clashing industrial gears: 16,500 building-trades workers in Detroit; 14,000 employees at Inland Steel; 7,500 cement workers in the northeastern states. The only major strike was the month-old walkout of 340,000 telephone workers, who seemed on the verge of coming to terms this week...
...evening session. The big clock over the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons was a few ticks short of 9:30. The Government's most extensive socialist measure yet-nationalization of almost all of Britain's privately owned inland transport-was in the bag, and everybody knew...
...President Howard Hughes of Hughes Aircraft loaded a Lockheed Constellation last week with newsmen and headed out over the Pacific near Los Angeles. He flew west until he was opposite the steep mountains beyond Santa Monica, which have reached for many an airplane through California fog. Turning inland, Hughes flew the plane directly toward the highest peak. The bell rang and the light flashed as soon as the radar "cat's whiskers" brushed the rising ground...