They assembled a network of funders among business executives, including Harold Luhnow, the director of the Kansas City–based William Volker Fund; Henry Ford II; GM executive Charles Kettering; media mogul William Scripps; and NAM leader and Sun Oil president J. Howard Pew.60 They would christen it the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), incorporated in 1946 with Goodrich as chairman, Read as president, and Hazlitt as vice president.

