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General Matthew B. Ridgway, 60, retiring Army Chief of Staff, was elected chairman of the board of trustees of Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, replacing Dr. Edward Weidlein, 67, who continues as president. Ridgeway, having thus turned down a bid to head Henry Kaiser's Argentine operations (TIME, May 2), will coordinate and direct policy of the nonprofit research organization, founded in 1913 by Banker-Industrialists Andrew and Richard B. Mellon, to work with industry in seeking "through . . . research in science . . . results that are of advantage to society...
...Industrial chemists gasped as Edward Ray Weidlein, chemical priorities director for OPM, observed: "The entire military activities of Germany and Italy, plus the industrial and other activities of these countries and of the occupied areas of Western Europe, are being carried on with an amount of petroleum plus synthetic products which is only about 5% of our present domestic production...
...Edward Ray Weidlein, internationally famed director of the Mellon Institute, chemical engineer, and World War I member of the War Industries Board...
...manufacturer who wants to accomplish anything within this frame gives a sum of money to the Mellon Institute. This finances what, in euphemistic imitation of university custom, is called a "fellowship." Director Edward Ray Weidlein of the Institute then hires one or more expert "fellows," tells them to get to work with any of the equipment in the $6,000,000 aluminum-trimmed establishment which Andrew Mellon and his late brother Richard provided. All the worker is bound to do is to give Mr. Weidlein a weekly report of progress. If a Mellon "research" ends profitably, the worker...
...fellowships. Since 1911 almost 4,000 U. S. companies including Aluminum Company of America, Pennsylvania Railroad, Simmons Company (beds), Koppers Gas & Coke Company, Ward Baking Com pany, Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc. (shirts, collars), Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, have paid the Mellon Institute $11,478,406 for research. Said Director Weidlein last week: "Most of the problems have been solved satisfactorily." Workers have produced 19 books, 143 bulletins, 744 research reports, 1,117 miscellaneous papers as a result of their work...