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...executive committee. Venerable President Clinton Lloyd Bardo stayed on to build the ships. Andrew William Mellon founded New York Shipbuilding in 1899 (see p. 47). Astute, he sold it out at the height of the Wartime shipbuilding boom. After the War when marine construction dwindled almost to nil, it branched into electrical equipment under license agreements with the famed Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Co. Ltd. In 1925 it changed its name to American Brown Boveri Electric Corp. Diversification proved to be illadvised. In 1931 it sold its electrical business to Allis-Chalmers, resumed its old name, began to make...
...assistants are for the most part students studying for their master's degree, and they perform their work of drilling elementary chemistry into their charges, both in the laboratory and in the section meeting, with obvious boredom and occasional ignorance. With a few exceptions, their teaching talent is nil...
...freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally jammed, frozen tight...
...their quarrels of the moment and let each winner keep the provincial revenues. Not the least amazing feature of Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong's balanced budget last week was the fact that under the heading Income from Provincial Revenues he was obliged to set down nil...
...hung in the office of John H. Barringer, high-powered general manager and dominant executive of National Cash Register Co., a sign: "BIGGER OR BUST-$100,000,000 sales, $20,000,000 net profits." Last year because the sales were dwindling to $29,000,000 and the profits to nil, and because N. C. R. could no longer pay dividends, high-powered Mr. Barringer resigned. Into his job but not his office went Col. Edward Andrew Deeds, tightlipped, bespectacled chairman of Niles-Bement-Pond Co. (electric machinery), of Pratt & Whitney (airplane motors), of General Sugar Corp. It was a home...