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...newspaper plants. Once, such a walkout by the linotype operators would have paralyzed the papers. But last week most of the strikebound dailies were on the stands, thanks to a new technique in printing and, chiefly, to its sponsor, Manhattan's small (total assets: $800,000) Ralph C. Coxhead Corp. Its Vari-Typer machines, glorified typewriters which automatically set straight right-hand margins, were being used by most of the strikebound papers to by-pass the linotypers. The biggest fault that readers found with the papers was that they looked like a stenographer's work...
This week Coxhead Corp. was ready to get rid of the typewritten look. It had a new model machine whose type was almost indistinguishable to the layman from ordinary newspaper print. Unlike the old Vari-Typers, which can print in Arabic and 50 other foreign languages, the new machine has only five type faces, as yet, but they are specifically designed for newspaper printing...
...Abacus. Tall, California-born Ralph C. Coxhead, the company's tinkering board chairman, had never set out to start a lower-case revolution. A salesman of office machines, he once helped to get Hawaiian sugar growers to use mechanical calculators in place of the Chinese abacus. He did even better in New York, where, in partnership with his brother, Stuart (now president of the company), he set up Coxhead Corp. as an agency for German Mercedes calculators...
When Mercedes sold the patents to another company, Coxhead hastily looked around for a product of his own. He found it in the old Hammond typewriter. Through deaths and bankruptcies, it had become the VariTyper and was up for sale for $300,000. Coxhead bought it. He made some 1,400 changes and developed it into an efficient printing machine* for house organs, direct-mail campaigns...
...office composing machine, which operates like a typewriter but can take a sheet 20 feet wide, has been developed by the Ralph C. Coxhead Corp. to enable a typist to letter engineering drawings and tracings. By reducing to one-tenth the time required for lettering, it cuts down drafting-room time more than one half, solves a bottleneck in war production...