Word: metten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half ago. Babcock's right-hand men are Executive Vice President William F. Wise, who came from Excello Corp. and Republic Products Corp.; manufacturing Vice President Carl H. Kindl, who came by way of National Cash Register and G.M.; and New York Shipbuilding's John Farrell Metten, a hardhanded, hard-driving production man who turned out $655,000,000 worth of ships for the U.S. Boss of AVCO's sales is Raymond C. Cosgrove, who joined AVCO when it bought the Crosley Corp...
...rugged, white-haired, modest John Farrell Metten, dean of U. S. naval designing engineers, New York Ship.'s big cut of the shipbuilding boom was most welcome. In 1935, after he became president, his firm lost an uncomfortable $1,415,373 on its 1933-34 contracts. Last year it earned $928,264. With luck, 1940 might set a record. From a Delaware farm, Jack Metten went to work repairing ships at Newport News when...
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