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...Houston this week the last steelwork was put in place for a 44-story skyscraper, the tallest building west of the Mississippi and the headquarters of a U.S. oil giant: Humble Oil & Refining Co. The giant is the creation of another giant, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), the world's largest oil company. Its building symbolizes the fulfillment of a longtime dream of Jersey Standard's president and chief executive, Monroe Jackson Rathbone. Quietly and almost unnoticed, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), brainy Jack Rathbone, 60, has carried off one of the biggest corporate reorganizations in history. Into Humble...
Weather Lesson. The smallish hurricane that hit Freeport, Texas in 1949 taught them a startling lesson. The great waves rode higher than anyone dreamed they could. They twisted and smashed the steelwork of the sea rigs, and tossed heavy machines around as if they were wooden mockups...
Administrative Vice-President Edward Reynolds '15 reported last night that, even in the event of a steel shortage, building at the Business School will not be hampered. Reynolds added that most of the steelwork on Aldrich and Kresge Hall has already been completed...
...into the U.S. last week. They were the leitmotif of a journey that had seemed endless. "I fled from Estonia to Finland because of the Germans," said the girl, on Ellis Island. "A year later, in 1944, I fled from Finland to Sweden because of the Russians." Her shipmates-steelwork-ers, a glassblower, weavers, seamstresses, mechanics, lawyers, farmers, fishermen-had similar tales to tell. An Estonian farmer told how his 76-acre farm had been seized when the Russians decided he was a kulak. A girl remembered the sight of three boys, their eyes pierced, their fingers cracked, their hair...
Henry Ford assigned his crack speedster to run the job at Willow Run: hard-boiled Vice President Charles E. Sorensen, who is also the doctor in aircraft-engine building and all the other Ford production projects. Last week three-quarters of the steelwork on Willow Run's vast plant (275 acres of floor space) was finished. Bricklaying was well under way, and under gaunt girders workmen were installing machinery. Alongside, workmen were inlaying the turf with the seven great runways of a new airport...