Earle Bailie, 50, investment banker who served the Treasury Department as a dollar-a-year man, 15 November 1940.

Asa George Baker, 73, former president and chairman of the board of the G. and C. Merriam Company, publisher of Webster's dictionaries, 10 September 1940.

Herbert Baker, 59, president of the American Can Company, 25 November 1940.

George L. Berry, 66, labor activist and union official, 4 December 1948.

Charles Boettcher, 96, industrialist, 2 July 1948.

William J. Bowen, 80, labor leader, 27 July 1948.

Thomas A. Buckner, 77, president of New York Life Insurance Company (1931-1936) and chairman of the board (1936-1941), 8 August 1942.

Patrick Henry Callahan, 74, president of the Glidden Varnishing Company and later the Louisville Varnishing Company, innovator in employee profit, director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the National Labor Relations Board during the 1930s, 4 February 1940.

Louis Chevrolet, 56, former race-car driver who in 1911 built and designed, with William Durant, the first Chevrolet automobile, 13 December 1941.

Walter Percy Chrysler, 65, former vice-president in charge of operations of General Motors, founder...