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...front-page story in that morning's Washington Post bore a shocking headline: INEFFICIENCY, WASTE LAID TO WPB's IRON, STEEL BRANCH. Said the Post scoop: a young, $5,600-a-year WPB consultant named Frederick I. Libbey was cooking up a report which would blister the WPB's Iron & Steel Branch; after consultation around the country with steel experts he had found gross mismanagement in Washington; he was convinced the steel branch experts were second-rate ex-salesmen palmed off on the Government by steel companies who don't need salesmen any more. Only...
Private-pilot leadership had long hounded Washington for real military recognition. As early as 1938 Milton Knight, young Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. official, had pushed the organization of a Civilian Air Reserve, tacked to military aviation. In 20 States it took that name and others: Civilian Flying Corps, Civilian Air Corps, Air Guard...
...John David Biggers were typical of the socially-conscious businessmen who came to Washington at Roosevelt's call. Stettinius had inherited wealth and a feeling for public service; when he went to Washington he resigned his board chairmanship of U.S. Steel. Biggers had reached the presidency of Libbey-Owens-Ford by way of the secretaryship of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce...
...Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. of Toledo is a triple-threat firm on the technological front. Inventing, buying and licensing, it has diversified its flat-glass line into 14 types of product from curved ("invisible") show windows to "glastone" building bricks. But three-fifths of L-O-F's business is selling safety glass to the automobile industry, principally General Motors...
Among members of his staff: John David Diggers, president of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; Knudsen's executive assistant...