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...most Americans, the word Bayer means headach pills. Aspirin was indeed invented by Germany's Bayer Farbenfabriken, but one of the company's major migraines is that its aspirin is made in the U.S. solely by Manhattan's Sterling Drug Co. Bayer (pronounced buyer) lost its U.S. trademarks during World War I and has been unable to get them back...
Despite Germany's wars, depressions and inflations, Bayer has always recovered by creating new products- from the world's first sulfa drugs and synthetic rubber to Europe's first color film, put out by its Agfa subsidiary. Now Bayer has regained its postwar position as the continent's biggest chemical industry. Bayer earned $50 million on last year's sales of $1 billion and recently announced that sales are running 9.5% ahead...
...million aht Bayer invests annually in research has produced so many postwar products that 58% of its sales come from items that did not exist 15 years ago. President Kurt Hansen, 53, is a relaxed, personable sort who recalls, "A journalist once asked me why we didn't invite the press when we developed a new product. So I replied, 'Do you want to be invited every day?' " Pharmacy of the World. Since its founding 100 years ago by Dyemaker Friedrich Bayer, the company has shown a knack for seeing ahead of competitors. In the 1860s Bayer...
...reproduced a painting by Frederic Remington and in 1962 one by Winslow Homer. National Gallery Director John Walker persuaded Day to try a live artist this year, got Art News magazine to give $500 to each of the contestants chosen to enter. The five artists-Buck-minster Fuller. Herbert Bayer. Josef Albers. Bradbury Thompson and Frasconi -were brought to the capital for a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to learn the limitations of the department's presses. They submitted a total of 14 entries, all designs intended to put the abstract theme of science in accurate...
...ALAN E. BAYER Tallahassee...