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...from a foundering hodgepodge of mines and miscellany into a skillfully integrated corporation with holdings worth $250 million. The M. A. Hanna Co. dominates coal and iron mines, ships, banks, chemical plants, a rayon plant, a steel corporation-and is now deep in an enormous ore project in Labrador. Humphrey's exploits made his name magic among the planners and visionaries of U.S. industry, but the public knew him hardly at all. "Business," Humphrey used to say, "is judged by performance and if you perform you don't need to talk . . . I've always discouraged the people...
Like Ike, George Humphrey is likely to feel frustrated and uneasy at a cocktail party and happy when he is in the field or at the bridge table. Like Ike, he likes the far-ranging operation, is in his element when he is outbound for Labrador in the Hanna Co.'s speedy converted Lockheed patrol bomber. His nonbusiness passion is horses; he is a scientific horse breeder and an excellent horseman. His rambling, two-story country home in Kirtland Hills, just outside Cleveland, is a horsy household dominated by murals, pictures and statues of horses. Above the living-room...
...going to ask that usual, redundant question of how many letters TIME has received from indignant Marines pointing out this mistake, but I'll bet a three-day pass to an ice-cream cone that the mails from Labrador, Tripoli, Munson, Harlan County, Ky. and other far corners of the globe are just a little heavier this week...
...into plastics. One of the Hanna interests, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., is the largest producer of soft coal in the U.S. A Hanna subsidiary, the Hanna Coal and Ore Corp., is currently the leading force in a $225 million project to tap the 400 million-ton ore deposit in Labrador. His Labrador interests have made Humphrey an enthusiastic proponent of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Total assets of the M. A. Hanna Co.: $121 million. Earnings in 1951: $14 million. Industrialists give George Humphrey the major credit for the company's rise to eminence. Said one of his associates...
...King Buck, a black Labrador, the National Retriever Trial championship, breaking a two-year reign of golden retrievers ; at Weldon Springs...