Howard Earle Coffin
The board was headed by Howard E. Coffin, one of the "dollar-a-year-men," a group of influential financiers and industrialists appointed to production boards and paid a dollar to meet the federal requirement that those providing civil service be employees of the government. Coffin was widely acknowledged for his role in fostering the standardization of automobile construction. He was a cofounder of the Hudson Motor Car Company, president of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and had before the war recognized and advocated the benefits of patriotism for profit, or private industry building armaments for the government. Keen to break down the barriers between public expenditure and private ownership, Coffin had called World War I "the greatest business proposition since time began."[1]
References
- ↑ Robertson, 2003, p. 13. Citing National Dictionary of American Biography, J.T. White, 1926, and Biddle, Barons of the Sky, p. 26.
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