Iking and listening to Mr. Merrick, it is easy to understand his, quick rise to the leadership of such huge enterprise as the Westinghouse Electric. He impresses the listener first and foremost as a calm, forceful executive, whose decisions and actions are based upon mature and sound judgment. New Jersey is his native state and he graduated from Lehigh University in 1801, spending his first working years with the Thomas-Houston Company in Massachusetts. Later he became manage and chief engineer of the Steel Company. Later, when the Westinghouse Company acquired the electrical branch of thie company, Mr. Merrick was sent to Canada to organize manufacture there. Here his ability for getting things done found plenty of scope. A new plant was built and an industry created. [Soon he was general manager of Canadian Westinghouse Ca, Ltd.
Then came the world war, when speed of action in furnishing: the allied armies with supplies was vital. Mr. Merrick could tell a romantic story of his experiences performing the seemingly impossible in the way of production from plants hopelessly handicapped by lack of man power. His achievements during and after this time won for him in 1925 the position of vice-president and general manager of the company. In 1929 he- was elected president.
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