John, Baron Cadman of Silverdale is a traveled, reserved, clean-shaven Staffordshire native, 61 years old, who walks from two to five miles for a breakfast appetizer, speaks phonograph-taught French. As plain John Cadman, he devoted his life to coal, gas and oil, spent twelve years' professorship of mining and petroleum technology at Birmingham University before he became head of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was...
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