Word: mcnabb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polo team. In the summer vacation of 1937 he took a job at $12 a week in Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras). For the next 11½ years he was in & out of Bell & Howell, but was seldom out of the mind of its president, Joe H. McNabb...
...McNabb who persuaded Chuck Percy to work for Bell & Howell on weekends and vacations, and gave him a full-time job when he graduated from Chicago in 1940. He was put in charge of a new department to handle defense contracts. The contracts rolled in so fast that six months later, when Percy was 21, he was in charge of the major part of Bell & Howell's business. Just before he joined the Navy as a seaman, McNabb made him assistant secretary and a company director...
...Theme. Stationed on the West Coast, Percy spent his spare time studying West Coast industries and the causes of strikes. His reports so impressed McNabb that when Chuck Percy was discharged (as lieutenant), he became Bell & Howell's industrial relations and personnel director. As such, he plugged his main theme: workers had to be given a sense of importance and "belonging" to the company...
...Boss. This week, Percy got the go-ahead to finish the job-and in his own way. To succeed McNabb, who died last week, the directors chose him president. At 29, he is boss of a company that sold $18 million worth of motion-picture cameras and equipment last year, and earned a net profit of some...