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...September 1939, burly, tireless Philip Gustav Johnson became president of Boeing Airplane for the second time in his life. His first term ended in 1934, when Boeing was part of United Aircraft, and Johnson, as United president, became a scapegoat in the U.S. Government's abortive 1934 airmail contract cancellation. When Boeing recalled him from Canadian exile five years later, the company was suffering from two interrelated problems: 1) sales were small, its profit & loss statement soaked in red ink; 2) production was painstakingly perfectionist and inefficient...
...tireless statisticians of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. have figured out that no one should let himself gain weight after the age of 25-if he wants to live his full span. Last October the company published a set of ideal weights for women. Last week's Statistical Bulletin contained the table...
...Tireless CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell has been more voluble and outspoken on this Shipshaw finance than on the question of public ownership. Already producing power and scheduled for completion in November, Shipshaw was under construction 15 months before its existence was revealed last January. The Aluminum Co. of Canada had financed it to the hilt from contracts on future aluminum deliveries signed with the U.S., Britain and Australia. Primarily, the dam was built to supply power for the war production of aluminum. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones advanced $68,500,000 in fund's of the Metals...
...some distance away, Charlie No. 2 may go part way by plane or truck. Then he goes ahead on foot, seeming to wander aimlessly, pausing now and again to examine a clump of bushes, some disarranged grass or stones. When the trail becomes fresher he lopes forward, confident and tireless. Sometimes he warns that they had better hurry, saying "Bimeby he finish...
Died. Dr. James Ewing, 76, world-honored cancer authority, longtime professor of pathology at Cornell's Medical School (1899-1932); in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, which he directed from 1913 to 1939. He published his land mark cancer text, Neoplastic Diseases, in 1919, after 20 years of tireless, neuralgia-racked labor. He believed in no universal cancer cure, plugged research, early diagnosis...