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Norman Collisson, 47, stocky, go-getting industrial engineer (onetime chief power engineer, American Gas & Electric Co.), was the hard-working chief of ECA's mission to Germany's Bizonia. As a Navy captain, he had a peculiar wartime job: running strikebound plants (York Safe and Lock, some 60 oil refineries) seized by the Navy. Now he was trying to tap Bizonia's vitally needed industry. "Western Europe," he said, "is like a machine that has run way down. Part needs oiling, part replacing, part overhauling. Before this machine can achieve top efficiency again, every single piece must...
...dozen U.S. cities the International Typographical Union, A.F.L. had struck newspaper plants. Once, such a walkout by the linotype operators would have paralyzed the papers. But last week most of the strikebound dailies were on the stands, thanks to a new technique in printing and, chiefly, to its sponsor, Manhattan's small (total assets: $800,000) Ralph C. Coxhead Corp. Its Vari-Typer machines, glorified typewriters which automatically set straight right-hand margins, were being used by most of the strikebound papers to by-pass the linotypers. The biggest fault that readers found with the papers was that they...
...rejuvenate the Monon, the trustees last year brought in a new president, John W. Barriger III. Barriger, a stocky, cheerful hustler, had been an assistant yardmaster for the Pennsylvania, railroad analyst for Kuhn, Loeb & Co., adviser to RFC, and operator for about a year of the strikebound Toledo, Peoria & Western (TIME, May 18, 1942). He had some young ideas for Monon, and he put them into effect as he traveled over the Monon in his business car (purchased secondhand from the Southern Pacific in 1887). As a result, when the Monon celebrates its 100th anniversary this week, it will...
...gambler's restlessness stirred among the fleet of salmon trollers and purse seiners in Ketchikan, Juneau and Sitka, and at moorings along a thousand miles of hemlock-studded coast. In May this fleet and Alaskan canneries had been strikebound. But the 1947 fishing season could still mean riches. Prices were up, and even last year's niggling pack (3,971,109 cases) had brought a record $59 million...
When George Plummer McNear Jr. was murdered three months ago, Peoria wondered if the strife over his strikebound Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad had died with him. This week it looked...