engineering. Previously Mr. Harrower was sales manager, Bendix Aviation Corp.’s Eclipse Aviation Division, E l
mira, N. Y. and prior to that was asso
ciated with the Export Division of Radio Corp. of America, New York.
L. P. Schrubey has been transferred from the Accounts Service Department, Ampco Metal Inc., Milwaukee, to the Newark, N. J., Field Engineering Of
fice, to become field representative un
der the supervision of W . T . Peterson, district manager. W . F . T ail has been transferred from Ampco’s Newark office to its Cincinnati office, where he will for Industrial Engineering Associates, Indianapolis. Cleveland. Mr. Thompson is president of Hanna Ore Co., Cleveland, and vice president of M. A. Hanna Co.
William F . Kennedy has joined tire In
ternational Nickel Co., New York, as general solicitor and assistant secretary.
For the past 15 years Mr. Kennedy has been associated with Sullivan & Crom
well, New York and for a number of years was in charge of the firm’s South American office in Buenos Aires.
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George B. Michie, who has been in charge of purchasing and priorities, Electro Refractories & Alloys Corp., Buffalo, has been elected vice president in charge of sales for that company. Carl F . Leitten, vice president in charge of manufacturing, has been elected a direc
tor of the company.
Dr. Charles Allen Thomas, director, Monsanto Chemical Co.’s Central Re
search Laboratories at Dayton, O., has been elected a vice president and, effec
tive Sept. 1, will become a member of the company’s executive committee. Dr.
Thomas, who will be succeeded at Day staff of Battelle Memorial Institute, Co
lumbus, O., to assume responsibility for an expanded program of research educa
tion.
Frank Hamilton has been elected to serve as assistant to the president of Freeport Sulphur Co.’s subsidiary, Nicaro Nickel Co., New York. Mr. Hamilton maintain headquarters at Swissdale, Pa.
Charles S. Northen Jr. has joined the previously associated with the Taylor- Winfield Corp., Warren, O.
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o----Clarence H. Schuettenberg has been appointed sales manager, Stoker Division, Link-Belt Co., Chicago.
Herbert King has been appointed Cali
fornia field representative for General Alloys Co., Boston, with offices in San elected vice presidents, Babcock & Wil
cox Co., New York. Before joining the company in 1937, Mr. Iddles was vice president in charge of design and con
struction, United Engineers & Construc
tors Inc., Philadelphia. Mr. King has been associated with the company since 1914.
Frederick G. Schranz has been ap
pointed vice president in charge of hy
draulic and special machinery sales, Con
tinental Foundry & Machine Co., East
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Chicago, Ind. His headquarters will be at 903 Grant building,. Pittsburgh.
Otto G. Schwenk has been elected comptroller of the Weatherhead Co., Cleveland. He joined the company last August as industrial engineer after 10 years association with Albert Ramond &
Associates, Chicago, consulting industrial management firm.
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Russel R. Graham has been appointed New York division engineer, American Bridge Co., Pittsburgh, a subsidiary of manager of the Indianapolis branch, and J. A. Fahey as manager of the .At comptroller, American Steel Foundries, Chicago, has been elected as a member of the board of directors, General Steel Castings Corp., Eddystone, Pa.
George Spatta has been elected presi
dent of-Clark Equipment Co., Buchanan, Mich., succeeding the late Albert S. Bon
ier. Before joining the Clark organiza
tion in 1927, he was associated with Gen
eral Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Dr, Leo Wolman, professor of econom
ics, Columbia University, has been elect
ed to the board of directors; Dr. John M. Pittsburgh, has been elected vice presi
dent and general manager of sales for metallurgical director, Crucible Steel Co.
of America, New York.
W ill Whitmore has been named ad
vertising manager, Western Electric Co., New York, succeeding II. W . Forster, de Chicago district sales and service repre
sentative, Towmotor Corp., Cleveland.
Frank Colker and Thomas F . Maloney have been appointed district sales repre
sentatives for the Detroit area.
Salvatore Giordano, president of Frank J. Quigan Inc., Buffalo, has been elect development of electrodes. Mr. Woods was associated with the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Tex., for 19 years and during the past three years with the Dickson Gun Plant, a Hughes-operated concern, as process engineer. and treasurer, respectively. Directors elected are; F . C. T. Daniels, William manager of sales, Lindberg Engineering Co., Chicago. He will continue to surrounding territories. He was previ
ously with the sales department of Pitts
burgh Equitable Meter Co., Pittsburgh.
P. R. Mork has been elected execu
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sistant general manager of sales, Pitts
burgh Steel Co., Pittsburgh. Since Jan- uary, 1944, Mr. Zak has been manager of tubular sales, and previously was sec
retary of the Seamless Steel Tube Insti
tute, Pittsburgh. Former connections include Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., finance committee, United States Steel Corp. He is filling vacancies created by George Washington, Manhattan, and Tri- boro bridges in this district and many others in this and other countries.
Robert Cox Post, 67, president, Post &
McCord, structural steel engineers and erectors, New York, who have placed the steel for some of the country’s largest structures, died May 3 in New Brunswick, Canada. Among the steel-framed build
ings erected by the firm is the Empire State building, New York. Mr. Post was graduated from Stevens Institute of Tech
nology in 1898 and shortly thereafter purchasing agent of the Pittsburgh Steam
ship Co., Cleveland, and since then had organized the Electric Railway Presidents’
Conference Committee which spent $1 million developing a streetcar that would take advantage of scientific advances in the field of electrical and mechanical engineering.
Emerson L . Applegate, 52, tube mill superintendent, Indiana Harbor Works, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., East
He established his ship construction yard in Seattle in 1911, first building steel whalers and other small craft. Following contracts from Norwegian owners in 1916, his firm built 8800-ton freighters dustrhl organizer, died recently in Oak
land, Calif. Bom in Sweden, he in
vented a calculating machine and formed
the Friden Calculating Machine Co. at
sultant, Ventures Ltd., Toronto, Canada, died May 3 in the offices of the company, He was chief engineer, M. A. Hanna Co., Cleveland, from 1917 until 1922 and be
came principal mining engineer, Mining Division, United States Bureau of Mines, in 1928, a position he held until 1934.
From Sept. 1, 1942, until July 1, 1943, he was consulting engineer for the American Nepheline Corp., a subsidiary of Ventures, being in charge of com
mercial development and application of a process for the production of alumina the Interstate Commerce Commission’s taking jurisdiction of freight rates even when wholly within state borders if inter
state commerce was affected.
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