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RICHARD F. PRENTIS Des Moines
Died. Henning Webb Prentis Jr., 75, scholarly careerman (52 years) with Armstrong Cork Co., who rose to be president (1934-50), chairman (since 1950), president of the National Association of Manufacturers (1940); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Lancaster, Pa. As president, Prentis raised annual sales of Armstrong Cork from $22...
Giant Gulf Oil Corp. announced that it will analyze the speeches, voting and attendance records of "Congressmen; then Gulf management will report its findings to its 161,000 shareholders, employees and dealers. If the program proves a success, Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), among other companies, will copy it. Top executives...
¶ Board Chairman Frank Abrams of the Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), a man who thinks it is high time that U.S. corporations give their share to U.S. higher education, announced that a new Council for Financial Aid to Education had been formed to do some persuading. The council, he thought...
* A board of 18, that has included the editors of the Freeman; Economists Leo Wolman, Ludwig Von Mises and Leonard Read; Importer Alfred Kohlberg: Armstrong Cork Board Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr.; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Vice President W. F. Peter, and others. The Freeman is also in debt...