Word: mccone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John A. McCone, who helped write the Finletter report on U.S. air power. He is president of the Joshua Hendy Iron Works and the California Shipbuilding Corp. (Calship), which built Victory and Liberty ships (TIME, March...
...others: John McCone, president of the West Coast's old and famous Joshua Hendy Iron Works; George P. Baker, professor of transportation at Harvard Business School, director in 1945 of the State Department's Office of Transport and Communications Policy and chief spokesman for the postwar Air Coordinating Committee; Arthur Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet and frequent adviser to Government agencies; Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, energetic publisher of the Denver Post, onetime head of the domestic branch...
...Chairman Thomas K. Finletter, Wall Street lawyer; Harvard's George P. Baker; Publisher Palmer Hoyt of the Denver Post; Dun & Bradstreet's Arthur D. Whiteside; Industrialist John A. McCone...
...Them. Quiet, levelheaded John McCone, 44, is just the man to keep Hendy on the job. His family has been in the machinery business since 1860, and McCone himself spent 15 years working for Consolidated Steel Corp. He left in J937 to join the Six Companies. During the war, he normally put in seven 15-hour days a week running Calship along with Bechtel-McCone's B-29 outfitting plant in Birmingham, Ala. His tough formula: set production goals higher than anyone thought could be met, then make sure they were...
Last week, with Hendy's strike settled, McCone took his first vacation in about six years. Friends doubted if he could stop working. When they visited him at his five-acre estate in San Marino, they found that, sure enough, he was supervising construction of a new swimming pool...