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...William) Harold Rea, 47, president of Canadian Oil Companies Ltd., was a logical choice for guest speaker at last week's meeting of Toronto's National Sales Executive Club. Rea's company, a 98.7% Canadian-owned firm, is one of Canada's fastest-growing oil and gas companies. Its 1954 report showed a $2,000,000 sales increase and a 20% rise in net profit over...
...topic, Speaker Rea chose to tell "a true story of a business problem faced by the chief executive of a medium-sized company." The executive, said Rea, was deeply worried about the state of his company's business, as well as the efficiency of his own office and the top men around him. On a friend's recommendation, he took his problem to a psychologist...
...G.O.P. Congress, and he will make still another plea on election eve. Some of his new spirit was displayed in a letter to Rural Electrification Administrator Ancher Nelsen. With scarcely concealed anger, Ike took notice that some Democrats (and Wayne Morse) were charging that the Administration was hostile to REA and planned to curtail its work. Wrote Ike: "This is part of a general fear psychology now being adroitly generated in many fields by people who evidently have ends to serve that they consider more important than the truth." The truth, said Ike, was that REA is being extended...
...farmer until he was appointed by President Eisenhower last year to replace onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing out cash, pending the outcome of the drawn-out court fight with the private company...
...themselves, without special Government favors. But from then on one wonders if they really mean it. The "farm program," meaning a sort of package tying up' such things as price supports at a high percentage of parity, insurance, loans, storage and marketing aids, REA and soil conservation, means one thing to most of the farmers I talked to: a reassuring piece of insurance against disaster. To them, there is no insurance in a "flexible farm program," or a program minus this or that present-day provision. In North Dakota G.O.P. Senator Milton Young said: "A flexible farm-support program...