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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keeshin's tough-as-nails President John Louis Keeshin started out (in 1913) with one horse and wagon, wound up (in 1936) as the No. 1 U.S. trucker. By that time Jack Keeshin had the potent help of John Hertz, Lehman Bros, partner and Yellow Cab Co. founder, and of Hertz's tough right-hand man Daniel G. Arnstein (who later turned the Burma Road into an efficient supply line). John Hertz and "My Boy Danny" are no longer on Keeshin's board, but air-minded Lehman Corp. ''who also have a finger in both...
Born in St. Louis, graduated from Harvard (where he edited the Crimson), McKittrick was a partner in Higginson & Co. of London when he was elected to the B.I.S. presidency in June, 1939. He speaks four languages, which is necessary, for on his staff of 100 are Germans, French, Italians and other nationals. In his leisure time he studies the life habits of seabirds. He hopes that the bank will be important after the war. But while the B.I.S. may somehow survive the war, its future is probably that of a vermiform appendix which may have to be removed...
Died. Joe Clifton Trees, 73, millionaire oil wildcatter; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh. Drill-driving Joe Trees and his lifelong partner, Michael Late Benedum, were probably the widest-ranging, wildest wildcatters in U.S. history: they opened scores of fields from Pennsylvania to California, Oklahoma to British Columbia, made, lost, remade numerous fortunes together...
...line will come from Americans who would rather leave the problem of Europe to Britain and Russia. FORTUNE assumes agreement with Britain and Russia but thinks the U.S., which has never had a consistent policy toward Europe, will need one henceforth. If the U.S. is a full and equal partner the Big Three can keep Europe at peace. The U.S. role in this power triangle is to be the disinterested sponsor of a strong Europe; to make sure that Europe is not only restored to "all its ancient greatness and dignity" (as Churchill promised), but that it keeps up with...
Drugged, married to a strip teaser, shot at and generally pushed around, Hope keeps half a step ahead of his pursuers. Cornered by a loony Civil War vet and his invisible partner, Cartwright, Hope gets the vet to shoot Cartwright, in a rather amusing sequence of events...