On the Move

When its top executive echelon was killed in an air crash in Canada last fall (TIME, Sept. 19), Kennecott Copper Corp., biggest U.S. copper producer, started scouting for replacements. Last week the directors reached outside the industry to pick a new president. He is Charles R. Cox, 58, president of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., biggest steel-producing subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp.

A native of Schenectady, N.Y., Cox got his start in business in 1914 as a public accountant, worked for Crucible Steel and Babcock & Wilcox before joining Big Steel's National Tube Co. in 1934 as general superintendent of the Ellwood City, Pa. plant. In 1943 he moved to the presidency of National Tube, and was awarded a Certificate of Merit by President Truman for boosting steel production during World War II. He moved over to Carnegie-Illinois as president in 1946.

Into Cox's job at Carnegie will go Clifford F. Hood, 55, president of American Steel & Wire of Cleveland, another Big Steel subsidiary. Hood's former job will be filled by American Steel's vice president in charge of operations, Harvey B. Jordan, 54.

Other new faces in new jobs last week: K. Taylor, who went to work for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. as a stenographer in 1921, was elected assistant secretary, the first woman in A.T. & T.'s history to hold that job.

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