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...AutoStrop Safety Razor...
Chronicle of the Battle. The Gillette-AutoStrop battle dates back really to the year 1921, when came an important milestone in the Gillette history: the expiration of most of the Gillette patents. But a few extracts from the course of events in 1930 serves to tell the story of the battle. And the gradual reversal of position of the stocks of the two companies shows how Wall Street, always eager to forecast, reached a correct verdict...
...Gillette plant at South Boston stopped at noon. Razor No. 115,272,539 had just been completed. A half hour later the wheels started moving again. Razor No. 1 of the new type was made. Great secrecy marked the brief ceremony. That day Gillette closed at 102½, AutoStrop...
...stockmarket circles, in regard to the Gillette Co. . . . Based upon the advice of our attorneys we are pleased to assure you that the patent situation ... is being developed in a usual and orderly manner and that we anticipate no delay or difficulty." By then, Gillette was $97½, AutoStrop...
Probably never answered will be the question that the situation suggests: Did shrewd Inventor Gaisman plan from the first to use the Probak blade to force Gillette to buy AutoStrop? If so, he succeeded brilliantly, with only one considera ion not obtained: The greatest name in safety razordom is still King Camp Gillette, not Henry Jaques Gaisman...