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...maker of wallboard and similar products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During the War it had large Government contracts for Army belts. A few months ago the company sold its business in suspenders, garters and other elastic webbings. The receivership for closely-held...
Stewart-Warner Corp. exhibited a new brake system, as yet not in use on any but test cars. The principle is to use the momentum of the car to check the speed. On the Stewart-Warner model this operates mechanically with a clutch attached to the brake pedal. Frederick I. Libby, young automotive engineer of Bronxville, N. Y. is working on a similar brake operated by hydraulic pressure...
Ruefully Soviet leaders admitted last week that the "staggered" five-day weeks proved a brake on production instead of a spur. The idea was that machines would run every day, tended by four-fifths of the workers. Each day one-fifth of the proletariat would rest, next day another fifth, and so on, but machines never...
...slate roof. With an automobile jack his comrades had pried one arm free, but to free the other would topple down a mass of rock, kill the trapped man. Dr. Davis lay down and inched his way alongside the sufferer and, like an automobile mechanic unjointing a brake rod, amputated the pinned...
Benjamin B. Greer resigned as president and a director of New York Air Brake Co., was succeeded by Lowell R. Burch, previously chairman of the executive committee. Mr. Greer was made president in 1925 when he was chief operating officer for the receivers of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. He has also been with Colorado & Southern and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...