PLANS FOR TOMORROW 



and lumber, there settled a few years ago a husky, 

 hustling chemist, Stanley J. Buckman. Born in South 

 Dakota, educated at the University of Minnesota, he 

 moved South after graduation to Louisville where he 

 went to work for the American Creosoting Company. 

 He climbed to the head of the research department and 

 to an outstanding position as an authority in the field 

 of wood preservation. Then he struck out on his own. 

 As a manufacturer of wood-preservative chemicals he 

 did his bit during the war turning out protective treat- 

 ments for wooden barracks, tent pins, packing boxes, 

 or whatever the Army needed made of wood. The busi- 

 nessmen of Memphis have chosen this practical, suc- 

 cessful, technically trained citizen to spearhead the 

 industrial development work of their Chamber of 

 Commerce. 



Dr. Buckman resembles the ballyhoo artist of the city- 

 boosting era as little as the modern sales engineer does 

 the old-fashioned drummer. The Industrial Research 

 Committee significant name, that which he heads has 

 a program that would bowl over the enthusiasts who 

 labored to identical ends in the distant prewar epoch 

 of the industrialization campaign. 



Twenty good men and true, with the help of Charles 

 S. Peete, native-born secretary provided by the Mem- 

 phis Chamber of Commerce, have been putting 

 Memphis industries through a stiff course in economic 

 self -analysis. Their accumulated experience blankets 



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