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...Columbus, Neb. (pop. 13,000) the mayors of 39 nearby communities gathered this week to break ground for an addition to Behlen Manufacturing Co. and pay their respects to its president, Walter Behlen, 53, a corn-belt Edison. Inventor Behlen, a man given to loud sport shirts and a pink Cadillac, made a gross profit of exactly $194 his first year in business in 1940; last year he earned $3,309,000 by ceaselessly following a simple inventor's rule: "Ideas are a dime a dozen-it's doing something with them that counts...
...Behlen, a self-taught engineer who never got beyond high school, wasted few ideas. While working for the Railway Express by day-and turning out metal toe-caps for shoes, dental bridge clasps, and clock hands for ice delivery cards in the family garage with his father at night-he noticed that egg crates were being ruined when pried open. He invented removable metal crate clamps that sold so well, for 32? a pair, that he set up a full-time business in a building he bought for nothing down. (He promptly rented out the upstairs for $40 a month...
...Bomb Plan. During the war Behlen noticed that rubber conveyor rollers for mechanical corn huskers were unavailable. He devised a substitute from old auto tires-and in 1944 netted $40,000. The next year Nebraska was soaked by rain, and farmers needed dryers for their piled corn. Behlen designed long pipes that could be thrust into the corn, hooked up hot-air fans to blow through them. Farmers snapped up the simple dryer,* and such other Behlen inventions as auxiliary gears to make old tractors go faster...
Medley Relay--Won by Freshmen: C. N. Breed '36, J. B. Little '36, and J. W. Behlen '36: Second, Junior Varsity: J. F. Dennelly '36. M. V. Leventriff '35, and A. W. Sherwood '35. Time...