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His management of the several inter-related businesses has been described as "autocratic," characterized by close personal management of the enterprise and a fairly secretive attitude toward sales information and trade secrets, due especially to the businesses' rivalry with DuPont. In 1944 (after World War II), the businesses consolidated into a single "Olin Industries," and Olin retired from management of the firm, leaving it to his sons John

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