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Born: Nov. 15, 1891, in New York; silver-spoon son of Railroad Empire Builder E. H. Harriman who controlled 60,000 miles of the nation's rails, including the Union Pacific...
...account for the four Communist fugitives is one of the oddest specimens in the Communists' menagerie. Tall, intense Frederick Vanderbilt Field, 46, is the millionaire son of mil and the party's most dependable angel. His millionaires, great-great-grandfather was the profane steamboater and railroad builder, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Civil Rights Congress bail fund, of which Field is secretary, has handed over about $450,000 in bail money for the beleaguered Communists in the past three years. He is a registered foreign agent, as a lobbyist for Communist China. Congress cited him for contempt last year...
...builder of the wartime Ledo Road, also known as "Pick's Pike," which led from India to the Burma Road...
...from Pratt & Whitney to United's presidency in 1943. William Gwinn, 43, who came to Pratt & Whitney at 19 as a kid "crazy about aviation," now bosses Pratt & Whitney. (Of Rentschler's original team, he alone is active in the company.) Though United is primarily an engine-builder (more than two-thirds of its dollar sales), its other divisions are fast expanding...
Knowing that his colt was bred to stay, and hoping to prove his Derby caliber, Rutchick winter-raced the Count in Florida, where he ran in good company but without much success. As a builder-upper, Rutchick supplemented the colt's hay and oats with a daily quota of four ounces of imported Italian olive oil ("for plenty of vitamins"). The Count laps...