Word: ruffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plain Talker. But no one was truer to the image of the ruggedly free businessman N.A.M. likes to see than its new president, William J. Grede (rhymes with Brady), 54, boss of Milwaukee's Grede Foundries, Inc. Elected to replay William H. Ruffin, president of Durham, N.C.'s Erwin Mills, Inc., Bill Grede describes himself as a "foundry man or sand rat, as we call it." By selling pots & pans, he worked his way through two years at the University of Wisconsin, then quit to invest in a small foundry. Ever since, he has been running...
...president, N.A.M. elected high-domed William H. Ruffin, 51, president of Durham, N.C.'s Erwin Mills, Inc. He succeeds Claude A. Putnam, president of the Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H. President Ruffin was born & bred in Louisburg, N.C., went to work 29 years ago at a weaving machine in Erwin's textile mills and climbed steadily until he became president in 1948. Ruffin, who describes himself as a "moderately large manufacturer," employs 7,400 in his mills, is the first N.A.M. president to come from the soft-goods industry...