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...rise which thus has more of Dale Carnegie than Horatio Alger in it, the next friend whom Ed Stettinius won and influenced was U.S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor, in 1933. U.S. Steel was rich, fat, sprawling and unwieldy. Taylor had three ambitions : to tighten its management, to increase its popularity with the public and to step out. He chose a triumvirate of youngsters to succeed him: Ben Fairless to handle sales and operations; Enders M. Voorhees to oversee finances; and Ed Stettinius to be "front man." Ed began as vice chairman of the finance committee...
...your money rather than spend it. ... There will be termination [of war contracts], unemployment . . . take-home pay will fall because of the reduction in hours and overtime. You're going to wait for prices to come down . . . for new products. . . . Most important, the war economy didn't tighten your belt too uncomfortably. . . . You haven't been starved enough so you'll want to rush out madly and buy. People won't be letting go." In effect he dismisses the everyone-will-buy-a-helicopter kind of talk by implying that there won't be helicopters for sale, and if there...
...argue that there will not be enough grain for all needs. Livestock numbers, they say, must be reduced 20 to 30% if the U.S. is to have bread for its citizens, corn for its war industries* and wheat for industrial alcohol. When livestock numbers are reduced, the U.S. will tighten its belt...
Only rapid, bulk transportation can save hundreds of thousands from death. Transport is not available in the quantities needed. But, despite, the unavoidable handicaps, the Chungking Government can tighten administrative measures, drive out hoarders, eliminate the corruption which impedes relief efforts...
This was it. The correspondents felt themselves tighten up. The General was not smiling now; his icy blue eyes moved from one to another of the reporters. None of them had expected the top Allied commander to take them so intimately, so significantly into his confidence. The General warned them that they must not talk...