TIME Magazine, CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY
Paul Endacott, 49, a rangy Kansan, was an All-America basketball player (University of Kansas '23), was snagged by Phillips' famed Oilers team. He worked in the oilfields as an engineer, caught top management's eye by persuading Chrysler Corp. to be the first to convert a big plant's heating system to liquefied petroleum gases (e.g., butane), rose to head of sales research in 1934 (Phillips' 1950 gross: $534 million) and vice president in 1943