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William Batt's own SKF Industries controls the weather in its ball-bearing plants; Chevrolet has units in its machine-gun plant; Alabama's Rust Engineering has a 1,200-ton machine in its shell-loading plant...
...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...
...business advice, ex-Social Worker Hopkins relies on President William Loren Batt of SKF Industries, Inc., Treasurer Beardsley Ruml of R. H. Macy & Co. and Chairman W. Averell Harriman of Union Pacific R. R. Dynamic Mr. Batt is an expert on scientific management; jovial Mr. Ruml used to be dean of the social sciences at the University of Chicago; swank Mr. Harriman, long interested in the New Deal, chairmans the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. Last week he flew to Des Moines from his Union Pacific's Sun Valley playground, on Harry Hopkins' advice...