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North American Rayon Corp., seventh largest U.S. rayon yarn maker, and its sister company American Bemberg Corp., have had a troubled history. In 1940 the U.S. Government, suspecting that their parent company, the Dutch Algemeene Kunstzijde Unie, N.V. ("AKU"), was partly German-controlled, froze the properties, but allowed the U.S. directors to run the companies...
...graduation. Hard work ("The night force knows me pretty well"), moderate ambition ("My only interest is in the challenge of a job, not its level") and a friendly manner ("I know them all by their first names") helped him move up fast. In 1929 he was transferred to the parent company, American Telephone & Telegraph, where he became general commercial engineer in 1942, vice president two years later...
Busy Man. Working an 18-to-20-hour day is routine to Dr. Ochsner. He is also head of the department of surgery at Tulane University, and of the clinic's parent organization, the Ochsner Medical Foundation. He is editor of International Surgical Digest, co-editor of Surgical Magazine, author of 250 scientific articles. Since Surgeon Ochsner and four Tulane colleagues started the clinic in 1941, it has treated 70,000 patients. Among them are many Latin American millionaires and government officials who find Dr. Ochsner and New Orleans simpático. Other Ochsner patients: the late Senator Theodore...
...Ford II thought he knew why: the bigger cars had always been subordinated to the manufacture of Fords. Last week, to give equal emphasis to all Ford-made automobiles, Young Henry set up the Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford Motor Co. as a nearly autonomous unit, connected to the parent company only by policy and financial control...
...last car of the stalled train was a steel sleeper, and the steel held. Ahead was a wood-&-steel day coach; the steel sleeper drove into it like a battering ram. Forty-eight hours later, after relief trains and planes had got to Wykes, near Parent in northern Quebec's lonely logging country, the deaths stood at nine. More than 50 had been injured. It was Quebec's worst railroad wreck, in number of fatalities, in twelve years...