I speculated that it was something to do with aviation, gasoline, or something like that. I cannot imagine that Kirkwood knew what this was about, other than in a general way. Squires: I think Kirkwood told me that Benedict was coming. Groueff: So who contacted you personally, Kirkwood or Benedict? And Manson asked Professor Kirkwood if he did not have a student that he could recommend. At some time or other, their careers had overlapped.
They had both been at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at various times. He came to me in March and said they had this. Squires: Oh, no, no, no, I was just finishing up my graduate school at Cornell. Groueff: I see, so you were quite a young. Squires: No, I was still in graduate school working for Professor John Gambell Kirkwood. Stephane Groueff: Who contacted you first, Percival Keith or Manson Benedict? They just went to the top people all over the industry and got the top instrument man, the top man in the power field, and top people in compressors and all the various phases of the project. Kellogg Company pretty much on a command basis. Kellex – I am sure some of this you have already heard. Arthur Squires: And I probably did not appreciate, during the war itself, the extent to which this was such a remarkable effort.
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