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Engineering and Development Committee, a company policy group. An M.I.T. graduate, Whitaker joined Mead Corp. when he got out of college, rose through the pulp and board mills, served on the WPB during the war. He was made operations vice president for Mead in 1946 and executive vice president a year...
Wartime Recruit. Jim Nance, 50, a relative newcomer to the G.E. hierarchy, was picked by ex-President Charlie Wilson, who was impressed by Nance's work as a member of WPB's advisory board for industry. He was already a veteran in the electrical industry, had managed Frigidaire's commercial refrigeration department, bossed Zenith Radio's wartime production. Charlie Wilson liked his zip, enthusiasm and selling touch. He sent him to Chicago in 1946 as executive vice president of a G.E. subsidiary then called Edison General Appliance Co. The company's chief value...
...influence. He became director of more than a dozen corporations, including such giants as Sears, Roebuck, B. F. Goodrich, Cluett, Peabody, Continental Can, and General Foods. When World War II began, he was drafted as a dollar-a-year man, served with 0PM, and later with WPB, exercised his talent as body snatcher and also as a mediator between Donald Nelson and Charlie Wilson...
...Carbon Corp., after nine years' work on esters succeeded in producing Vinylite, the plastic now used for shower curtains, combs, etc. In 1943, Reid, a Kansan, joined Cora Products (maker of Karo syrup, Mazola oil, etc.) as a vice president, during the war served as chemicals boss for WPB...
...sales of every product an integrated operation. World War II suddenly switched him from this huge job to a huger one-making G.E. into a war industry. And in the middle of that, Franklin Roosevelt asked him to come to Washington to work the bugs out of the WPB...