MANUFACTURING: Charlie's Oscar

In 1933 wee Willie Woodin packed up his guitar and went to Washington to become Secretary of the Treasury of a brand New Deal. On leaving he turned over the presidency of his American Car & Foundry Co. (second largest U. S. railroad car maker) to a little white-haired lawyer, Charles J. Hardy, who had been the company's General Counsel. Charlie Hardy has been head of American Car & Foundry ever since.

About the same time that twinkle-eyed Mr. Woodin left, SeƱor Oscar Benjamin Cintas, a director of the company and head of...

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