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...took a job as draftsman for Boeing in 1917, nearly got fired when he worked out in his head an answer to a problem which agreed with no one else's. When his answer proved right he rose rapidly to assistant chief engineer, chief engineer, secretary, vice president and general manager. Year ago he succeeded Founder William Edward Boeing as president. Married, he has no children, flies his own plane to hideaway lakes for fishing...
Pool Unplugged, Like Herbert Hoover's hapless Federal Farm Board, the Dominion Pool was created to solve a problem that looked simple, on paper. Since Canada produces about 400,000,000 bu. of wheat annually and consumes only 110,000,000 bu., all the pool had to do was to buy surplus wheat from Dominion farmers and, after a little good-humored waiting, sell it abroad at its own price. Trouble was that Canada does not control the wheat export market single handed. While the pool sat on its wheat waiting for the right price, European bread-eaters bought their...
Last week, therefore, the Dominion was prepared to tackle its wheat problem from a different angle. Passed by both houses of Parliament and approved by Governor-General the Earl of Bessborough was a bill whose provisions represented a complete policy somersault. The measure abolishes the present pool, substituting for it a three-man wheat board appointed by the Prime Minister. The Board is not to continue the present wheat price-peg (80¢) but has the power to fix a minimum price at which it will buy wheat from Dominion farmers. Since the minimum price may often be less than...
...factors in his career McIntyre does not let his readers forget. One is that he and his wife suffered the harshest privations when they first arrived in Manhattan 23 years ago, after a knockabout newspaper career in the Midwest. At that time his problem was to get editors to print his column for nothing, so he might collect an occasional meal or the price of room rent from some restaurant or hotel whose name he had insinuated into print. His wife patiently worked the mimeograph machine, licked the stamps, kept what records there were. The other point is that...
...frank to admit that the presentation of these photographs is quite unusual at a hearing of this kind," cried Director Driscoll. "In my zeal and desire to adequately place before the negotiators the problem confronting my fellow-workers, I am eager that the negotiators . . . shall first of all be given reasonable opportunity to gaze upon the countenances of the army of workers whose happiness, contentment and prosperity is in their hands...