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Melone, Thomas Paterson of 116 North Central Street, Clayton: John Burroughs School. Clayton Stout, George Hubert of 5153 Westminster Place, St. Louis; St. Louis Country Day School.
The brains behind the new transmission, like those behind many another Packard innovation, belong to Colonel Jesse G. Vincent, Packard's chief engineer. Unlike most engineers, Vincent never attended college; he quit school after the eighth grade, got his degree from a correspondence school. After a stint with Burroughs...
Nevertheless, the sellers' market for the industry was about over, and as one observer cracked: "What we need now is an automatic salesman." Manufacturers were rapidly catching up with their once huge backlog of orders. Burroughs had already trimmed prices and competition was getting so keen that one maker...
Subtraction. The cream was off the boom for Burroughs Adding Machine Co. It cut the price of its $184 adding-subtracting machine to $155, the $135 model to $125. Burroughs said it was giving consumers the benefits of its production savings. But there was another cogent reason: Burroughs had caught...
"I was just working at my afternoon job at Slater's Book Store," said Michigan Senior Art Derdarian, "when somebody came in, interviewed me, and offered me $70 a week at Burroughs Adding Machine Co."