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Honeywell has barely been able to control its own growth. Founded in 1885 by Minneapolis Inventor Alfred Butz to manufacture the first automatic damper controls for furnaces, Honeywell grew and diversified steadily over the years by improving and elaborating on the basic principle of automatic control established by Butz. For years it plowed its sales dollars back into research to make better home controls, in World War II began to branch out in earnest by making Air Force automatic pilots and a radar sensitive enough to record so much as a twitch in a pitch-black room...
...finest that to mind are Bliss Perry's ladly Teach (1935) and Johnson's Campus Versus room (1946). At the other their careers, nine young contributed to the eye opening anthology The New Professors (1960), edited by Robert O. Bowen; particularly valuable are the sections by Otto Butz, Jay A. Young and Glenn Leggett...
...crossed the Atlantic in the 1650s when Pieter van Doom arrived in Peter Stuyvesant's Manhattan from Gravezande, Holland. The family grew up in the U.S. heartland, on the farmlands of Illinois. Charles Lucius Van Doren was a kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer. His wife, Eudora A. Butz, was a stern taskmaster who at the age of ten carried the mail on horseback across the prairies. Married in 1883, they raised a family of five boys. "We lived together in a busy tumult," wrote Carl, the oldest of those sons, in his autobiography Three Worlds, "in a close...
...last year more than 60% of the burley tobacco farms in the U.S. were down to the minimum allowed by the law, one-half of one acre, a plot so small that it can hardly be farmed efficiently. Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has a label for the process: "rationing poverty...
Intestinal Worms do not thrive in fresh air. That fact led Lewis W. Butz & Dr. William Alfred LaLande of Philadelphia to make 300 wormy puppies swallow some drugs which released oxygen in their guts. Worms left immediately. The drugs: terpineol, diheptanol peroxide, ozonized olive oil, ozonized cotton seed oil. When the same drugs were poured into a tumbler full of the round worms which infest babies, the worms promptly died. But up to last week Researchers Butz & LaLande had not dared to try the drugs on babies...