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  • Bio: Joseph Leopold Block (1902-1992) was an executive with the Inland Steel Company. He was a consultant to the War Production Board from 1941 to 1945. Block also served Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon
  • Block, Joseph L. (Joseph Leopold), 1902-1992
  • was made a colonel in the army, but male opposition blocked her from the rank of general. She received the Distinguished Service Medal in honor of her work. Following the war she resigned her commission and returned to Houston.In 1953 Hobby was recalled