Word: mckee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boss of Portland Gas is florid, bubbling Paul Boole McKee, who comes by his enterprise naturally. His great-great-grandfather founded McKeesport, Pa.; his grandfather and father founded San Francisco banks. Paul McKee has been a dollar-a-day carpenter, a machinist's helper, a track star (Stanford), boss of Electric Bond & Share's subsidiary in Brazil...
...when New Deal schemes for public power were aborning, Bond & Share sent McKee to Oregon to run Portland Gas, Northwestern Electric (SEC later made him drop this) and Pacific Power & Light. His assignment: to recapture lost earnings, fend off public power...
...McKee knew his first task was to show Portlanders that all utilitycoons were not Insulls. A good mixer, a good talker, McKee brightened many a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary, other clubs. Last year, Portland citizens raised $15,000 to help him beat Federal power at the polls...
Meanwhile, McKee never forgot that his $37,200 annual salary came from the cash register, not good will. He cut operating costs to the bone, boosted advertising to the limit. Last year his Pacific Power cleared $851,957 v. $77,105; Northwestern Electric netted $460,051 against $32,341 in 1933; Portland Gas earned $236,925 v. 1935's low of $2,333. Even so, the future of electricity in the Northwest clearly belonged to the Bonneville Power Administration. But McKee had a substitute line of goods: gas. He plugged gas for home heating, water heating, cooking and refrigeration...
...DEAD CAN TELL-Helen Rellly-Random House ($2). Plugging New York's Finest, this latest Inspector McKee story deals with a couple of murders in the Fast Set. There's evidence that a dead woman lives, that sex is not dead, that Medical Examiner Fernandez is dumb like a fox. Recommended...