general superintendent and Mr. Jones has been assistant secretary and assist
ant treasurer. Another appointm ent in foundry superintendent, Wilson Foundry
& Machine Co., Pontiac, Mich.
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Bert E. Brashares, formerly in the Steel Casting Sales Division, Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh," has joined the sales force, Ohio Steel Foun
dry Co., Lima, O. Mr. Brashares will specialize on miscellaneous steel cast
ing sales for the Lima plant.
Elm er A. Tenvell has been appointed assistant m anager of the Chicago plant, Snlkover Metal Processing Co., Chicago.
Mr. Terwell was connected for 20 years w ith the Chicago office of Driver-Harris Co., Harrison, N. J., and also served in 1938-1941 as seeretary-treasurer of the Chicago chapter, American Society for Metals, Cleveland.
previously was connected with Reynolds Metals Co., Richmond, Va., and Butler Bros., Baltimore, has been assigned to the Rustless New York district office.
Eric M. Arndt now serves as field service engineer in Milwaukee, having previous
ly been Milwaukee representative for American Rolling Mill Co. Edw ard G. assumed the added responsibility of gen
eral sales manager, succeeding John C. engineering staff, General Motors Corp., Detroit, as assistant to C. L. McCuen,
Kelley, formerly chief engineer of Chev
rolet’s Aviation Division, has been nam ed assistant chief engineer.
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o—Frank M. Hawley has been nam ed vice president, general manager and director, Morse Chain Co., Ithaca, N. Y. assistant manager, New York district office, succeeds Mr. Tucker as manager of the Philadelphia district office.
W alter B. Smyth, Cleveland district sales manager, Midvale Co., Nicetown, Pa., celebrated on June 1 his 50th anni
versary in the steel business. Practically his entire business career has been with Midvale and its predecessor companies.
H e has been located in Cleveland since 1904.
A. L. Scaife has been appointed man
ager, Advertising and Sales Promotion Division, Appliance and Merchandise D epartm ent, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. George B. Park and E. F. Vickery have been appointed as
sistant and operating manager, respec
tively, of the division.
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D r. H enry T. H eald, president, Illi
nois Institute of Technology, Chicago, has been elected president, W estern So
ciation of Personnel Directors, Chicago.
John M itchell has been appointed manager, products section of the Alloy j Sales Division, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., Pittsburgh.
H arry D. W agner has joined the Fox- boro Co., Foxboro, Mass., staff of engi
neers serving the Cleveland area.
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Donald M. Fraser, assistant geologist, Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa., has been appointed chief geologist, suc
ceeding the late W. L. Curnings. He has been associated with Bethlehem since 1941.
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James S. Knowlson, president and board chairman, Stewart-W arner Corp., ! Chicago, has been appointed central field commissioner for the European theater by Thomas B. McCabe, Army- Navy liquidation commissioner. His new duties will be to dispose of Army-Navy surplus materials in the European area.
Mr. Knowlson was vice chairman of the W ar Production Board in 1941 to 1943. .
Emery' B, H atch of Melrose, Mass., has been appointed representative for the New England territory, Ferry Cap &
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Set Screw Co., Cleveland. Edw ard C.
Swan Co., Denver, has been appointed the company’s representative for the states of Colorado, Idaho, M ontana, New the sales personnel service departm ent of the Goodrich firm. F red A. Lang,
Alfred Anderson, who formerly worked in the laboratories of Linde Air Products Co., New York, has been appointed tool engineer, Philadelphia office of Kenna- metal Inc., Latrobe, Pa. Gilbert A.
Bunn, formerly assistant superintendent of the torpedo plant and general fore
man of the rear axle departm ent of Pontiac M otor Division, General Motors Corp., has been appointed tool engineer in Kennametal’s Detroit office. Jack Wright, formerly production foreman at Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., Providence, R. I., has been appointed tool engineer in Kennametnl’s W est Hartford, Conn., office.
J. C. Schaefer, Held engineer, Allis- Chalmers Mfg. Co.’s Pittsburgh district office, has been appointed branch office
Bostwick until recently was chief elec
trical engineer of Federal Machine &
Welder Co., W arren, O.
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Samuel Moment, Bonneville Power Administration economist, and prior to that a government economist identified with the investigation of the Temporary National Economic Committee, has "been transferred to the Surplus Property Board, Washington, to investigate and report on
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disposition of government-owned alum
inum and alumina producing facilities.
Eric W. Peterson has been appointed chief engineer, Kaydon Engineering Corp., Muskegon, Mich. He has been chief engineer, D itto Inc., Chicago, for the past six years and previously served as industrial engineer, Remington Arms Co., Ilion, N. Y., and as supervisory
vision, Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, 111.;
C. A. Barabe Jr. has been nam ed assist
ant sales manager, Eastern Sales Divi
sion. F . E. Rusher has resigned as as
sistant sales manager, Central Sales, to become general sales manager and a director, Peoria Tractor & Equipm ent Co., Peoria.
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W alter S. Johnson has been elected president, Friden Calculating Machine Co., San Leandro, Calif., succeeding
vertising and sales promotion manager, Osgood Co. and the General Excavator Co., Marion, O., has been aw arded the Bronze Star Medal for “meritorious ser
vice in connection with operations against the enemy” while with the 15th Air Force in Italy.
D r. A. B. Greninger has been ap
pointed metallurgist, chemical depart
ment, General Electric Co., Schenectady,
L E O F. M c C A F F R E Y industrial engineering specialist and will head the m etal industries activities of the industrial sales departm ent, General Machinery Division. He was formerly assistant works manager in charge of operations, Algoma Steel Co., Ontario, Canada. His previous associations in
cluded those w ith Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh; Crucible Steel Co., Midland, Pa.; W eirton Steel Co., W eirton, W . Va.; Otis Steel Co., Cleve
land; and Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich. He has also served as a special consultant to the operating vice presi
dent, Steel Co. of Canada Ltd., Hamil
ton, Ont.
Robert W ier Jr. has been appointed general sales manager, Brush Division, Osborn Mfg. Co., Cleveland. Mr. Wier formerly was sales manager, Western Cartridge Co., E ast Alton, 111.
Nathan Alexander has been elected vice president in charge of purchasing, American Safety Razor Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Louis Klein, secretary and con
tendent of m aintenance and construc
tion. The changes have been made in
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treasurer, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Brackenridge, Pa., died May 27, at his treasurer, Chrysler Corp., Detroit, died May 31 in San Francisco.— o—
George Tilley Seabury, 65, executive head, American Society' of Civil Engi
neers for 20 years, died recently in New York.
Felix J. Trainor, 65, president and
gen-vice president and manager, Southern D i v i s i o n , M ack-International Motor Truck Corp., Long Island City, N. Y.
L. D . M arshbum succeeds Mr. Ewell as the corporation’s branch manager at Charlotte, N. C.
W alter B. Riley, Champaign, 111., at
torney, has been elected secretary-treas
urer, Clifford-Jacobs Forging Co.,
Cham-eral manager, Trainor National Spring Co., New Castle, Ind., died recently.
Frederic J. Arthurs, 65 president, Arthurs Buffalo Chemical Inc., Buffalo, died May 23 in that city.
Hervey Lindley Kitchin, 41, office manager, Consolidated Steel Corp., Los Angeles, died May 29 in that city.
William C. Hasslinger, 36, superin
tendent of the naval ordnance plant, A. O. Smith Corp., Milwaukee, died June 1 in th a t city.
William F . W hitney, 62, mechanical superintendent, American Brass Co.
Ansonia, Conn., since 1912, died re Army ordnance departm ent, died recent
ly a t Palmer, Mass.
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C. W alter Spalding, manager, power transmission machinery, Link-Belt Co., Chicago, witli headquarters at the com- ;
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of postwar employment. Liberal spending from current income will be necessary to support a prosperous economy, and
Mr. Hamaker expressed optimism over the immediate outlook for durable con
sumer goods, b u t predicted the ending of the w ar will impose a heavier burden on sales executives. W ith capacity for production greatly increased as a result of the emergency, the postwar distribution problem will be vastly greater.
For industrial goods, such as steel and machine tools, the sales executive sees both favorable and unfavorable factors.
One of the former is the rapid wearing
petitive disadvantage and force moderni
zation. Farm s are on the threshold of accumulate the necessary reserves for replacements and additions to plant and equipment. O ther unfavorable factors are over-expansion of some raw material
The speaker advised sales executives to get all the available facts on sales pos
sibilities and outlined his company’s- ap
proach to this problem.
H amaker believed postwar problems would not be too serious.
The steel industry, he said, expects
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Majority of 90,000 businessmen polled for their views on the sub Presidential committee will help them to devise their own plans in co-operation with labor.Businessmen participating in the poll said they favored regulariza
tion of production.
Expectations are the committee, which is headed by E ric Johnston, president, United States Chamber of Commerce, will not complete its study until the end of the year.
very good business by prewar standards for a num ber of years.
“The automotive industry will enter the peace with the largest backlog of
“Everyone anticipates a residential building boom, with estimates as high as
place existing passenger equipm ent as rapidly as possible to counter the com
petition of the airlines. They plan high
speed, low-priced service for the travel
boom which always follows war. unquestionably decline, the farmers will represent a huge market for implements, buildings, fence, and many other products made of steel.
“There is a tremendous highway build
ing program in prospect and much of the planning is already done. The trunk highways will be heavily reinforced with major intersections of the clover-
tion drops to something approaching prew ar levels, many problems will arise in determining which plants are to pro
duce the steel. An even decrease m op
erating rates throughout the industry cannot be expected. F or one thing, ob
solescent plants which have b e e n ievi«eJ to m eet w artim e needs probably will be abandoned. In addition, it is possi
ble that some of the new capacity, which in postwar will represent extreme over
capacity, such as plates for shipbuilding, establishing a public register of patents available for licensing, to aid m anufactur
ers in finding new products for m anu
facture during the reconversion period, and after the war. many public libraries throughout the United States, and otherwise given wide circulation.
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