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...became a successful corporation lawyer, with such important clients as Canadian Pacific and Willys-Overland. With his fat fees he began buying up his collection of radio stations and companies. At the same time he argued often and well for labor. Most notable victory: the Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. case, which won "portal-to-portal" pay for labor unions and brought $5 billion in suits against U.S. businessmen (TIME...
...Philip watched, the $275 million Kitimat project,* which includes the world's biggest aluminum factory and the biggest power development ever built by private enterprise, went into operation for the first time. Power from a mountain generating station was cabled 50 miles overland to a new aluminum smelter on the site of the old Indian village of Kitimat. The alumina ore came in Alcan freighters from Jamaica through the Panama Canal to Kitimat's newly dredged harbor. In the Kitimat smelter, the power processed the alumina into the first 4O-lb. ingot of Kitimat aluminum...
...Swedish army he devised a method of transporting ships overland...
...expedition lasted more than a year, and at times it seemed impossible to penetrate the jungle over river highways cratered with vicious rapids and broken by precipitous waterfalls. Once it took the explorers a week to advance a mile overland. But finally, with muddy, lifeless faces, they emerged to the "civilization [that] awaited us, with its haste and its rapacity, but also with its power and its glory." Through all the mishaps of his trip, Gheerbrant managed to hold onto his notes. He is a poet and has transformed them into a fascinating and noble book...
...James D. Mooney, 70, former General Motors executive and onetime president and board chairman of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., was elected president of Hoe & Co., biggest U.S. manufacturers of rotary printing presses. He succeeds Arthur Dressel, who resigned because of illness. Mooney lands in the thick of two fights: 1) a campaign by a stockholder faction to reinstate Dressel's ousted predecessor, Joseph L. Auer; and 2) an A.F.L. machinists' strike that has closed Hoe's main plants since January...