Word: skf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia, all SKF Industries top executives are working 60 to 70 hours a week "and we go home with homework...
With him at Baltimore was Businessman William Loren Batt, the SKF (ball bearings) president who is a Stettinius deputy commissioner. Mr. Batt was no less downright with the scrapmen than New Dealer Henderson. Said he: "I see it as your patriotic duty to receive and sell as much scrap as you can and as rapidly and cheaply as possible. . . . The President has said that the nation would be intolerant of strikes that tie up defense business. I think he would add, were it not obvious, that the nation will be equally intolerant of careless, selfish management...
...bold and able man is William Loren Batt. In public life he is Ed Stettinius' deputy in the Industrial Materials Division of the Defense Advisory Commission; in private life he runs the U. S. end of the international SKF ball-bearing business. One night last week Mr. Batt went...