Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President. The modern forester behind all this is John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., 48, greying grandson of the company's founder. Last week Phil Weyerhaeuser was elected president of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., top company of the sprawling family interests which include sawmills, pulp mills and ocean-going steamers (President H. H. Irvine died last winter). A Yale graduate and a member of the Yale battery during World War I, he went to work for the company in 1920, concentrated on conservation measures. He started the firm on selective cutting of trees, later got it to branch out into research...
Publicity-shy and restrained since the kidnaping of his son George in 1935 (TIME, June 3, 1935 et seq.), Phil opens up only in the privacy of his Tacoma home, where he enjoys martinis and practical jokes. In the basement he has a complete woodworking shop where he makes and repairs furniture. Not all his carpentering is successful. One winter Phil built a 15-foot sailboat with his two sons, George and John Philip III (Flip), now students of forestry at Yale. (There are also two daughters.) When launched, the boat promptly sank; it was badly caulked...
Last year, with Phil as executive vice president, the company's gross sales from forest products were $66,271,996, its net income $12,995,478. This year, earnings are "slightly ahead" of last year. Eventually, Phil expects that his new bark byproducts will add $10,000,000 a year to his gross business...
Elsewhere labor seemed less inclined to follow the disastrous tactics of the telephone workers, and more inclined to follow the successful strategy of Phil Murray's steelworkers. Both the railroad trainmen's A. F. Whitney and the National Maritime Union's Joe Curran, who had hit the nation a one-two punch last year, were now breathing peaceful assurances...
...recognition all over the place. Henry Ford II got the Thomas A. Edison Centennial Award for industrial statesmanship. John D. Rockefeller Jr. got the New York City Welfare Council's annual award for distinguished service to the community. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder and C.I.O. President Phil Murray got Medals for Merit for their war work. And Harvard's President James B. Conant was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Illinois. Bernard Baruch passed the entire week without getting an award of any sort. Ethel Barry more still hard at work...