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...Seligman, knew just enough about high-pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup, the second, only half as adept mechanically but twice as inquisitive...
...Jessup was the engine-room philosopher. He liked to puzzle out the "meaning" as well as the mechanics of the Cape Harting's boilers, pumps, ejectors, condensers, "the maze of teeth [on] the great twelve-foot bull gear . . . hobbed in spirals, or helices, across the gear wheel's rim." What, he wondered, was the net effect on man of such machines? Would the jittery 20th Century eventually learn to relax in a "kingdom of engines?" Ed Greenewater laughed and said, "Goddamn it, don't take it so hard, Second." The Chief grunted and went on reading...
Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their feet in front doors until they had raised $300,000. Local 18 of the United Auto Workers (C.I.O.), mostly unemployed, sold $87,000 worth of bonds...
Assistant Manager George Jessup explained that he had acted at the request of white American guests. "You know what it's all about," he said, "you're from the States." Thereupon Dr. Cannon hired a lawyer. In court he won an injunction that opened the Chateau's dining room to him again. Then he filed suit for $900 damages. Trial was set for September...
...postwar research department headed by Raymond Leslie Buell, former President of the Foreign Policy Association. Today this department consists partly of our top editors and executives, partly of outstanding economists and experts on world affairs-is headed by an erstwhile senior editor of TIME, "John Knox Jessup. There are a total of 20 people on the postwar staff-and they have gathered together and digested a staggering amount of information...