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When the new $44.4 million credit is drawn on, Henry Kaiser's various enterprises, according to his books, will owe the Government $186.6 million. He still owes $88.2 million on his Fontana, Calif, steel plant and $54 million on Permanente Metals, Willow Run and the Ironton (Utah) blast furnace. To date, Kaiser has paid off a total of $70.1 million on Government loans and credits, and he has paid another $41 million to the U.S. in rents and interest. Kaiser said he has also poured $108 million in earnings and private loans into improving and expanding his plants...
...Franklin, himself at the voluntary retirement age of 65 (mandatory retirement age: 70). Franklin had started on a freight platform in Philadelphia in 1906, worked steadily up through the freight division. He left the Pennsy three times-twice to become president of other railroads (Wabash and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton). Each time he returned to a better job with the Pennsy. In 1948 he was made executive vice president...
Representative Thomas A. Jenkins of Ironton, Ohio is a folksy, paunchy Republican who has been in Congress for 19 years. Last week, as a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, he was thrust into the first down-to-earth Congressional debate on the postwar world -on the renewal of reciprocal trade agreements. Mr. Jenkins listened soberly for two days to a lot of high talk about "international cooperation," "world trade," "economic reconstruction." Finally he blurted what was on his mind...
Football. In Portsmouth, Ohio, monoxide fumes from a dressing-room heater drugged the Central Catholic football squad between halves. Wobbly and stupefied, they were taken to a hospital and treated after beating Ironton St. Joseph's High...
Among the leaders of the new, environmental eugenics is Frederick Osborn of Manhattan, 51-year-old nephew of the late Henry Fairfield. A onetime banker and railroad executive (president of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton R. R.), Frederick Osborn by 1928 decided to devote his energies to something he liked. Having discussed many times the problems of heredity with his uncle, he took it up seriously, is now a director of the American Eugenics Society. Last week, in his Preface to Eugenics (Harper; $2.75), Mr. Osborn presented the scientific evidence to demolish the last remnants of his uncle's fancy...