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...manufacturing biologist in whose plant he went to work in 1911. In 1928 he bought a trailer to take his five children camping. It was supposed to unfold into a tent in ten minutes, actually took hours. Exasperated, Biologist Sherman built a trailer which looked like an egg-crate but worked. His family still found it impractical for sleeping, however, because they encountered what U. S. trailermen now call "Trailer Tappers." "So many curious people banged on my trailer to investigate," says Trailerman Sherman, "that I began to see that trailer manufacture might be a profitable pursuit...
Officials at University Hall had no sooner commenced the day's routine yesterday morning than they were pleasantly surprised by the arrival of a truck driver carrying a large crate of soft drinks. Upon investigation it was learned that this unexpected donation had been sent by Simoneau in return for favors previously conferred...
Beside the company's railroad spur stood a mammoth flat-topped trailer. Flat on the trailer lay a circular crate, nearly 18 ft. across, made of reinforced sheet steel. Inside, protected by close-packed felt and rubber, was the biggest and costliest piece of glass in the world - the 200-in. telescope mirror destined for California Institute of Technology, 3,000 miles away. For nearly a year, since it was formed of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, the great disk had cooled slowly in its annealing oven. In the testing plant it had been pronounced...
Even more heretical than Soapman Fels is Soapman J. Crate Larkin, who is really a soapman only by tradition. Larkin Co. was founded as a soap works in 1875, branched from wholesaling into mail-order distribution, branched again into distribution through women & children who wanted to earn a few premiums. After 20 years, Larkin again branched, this time into chain stores. Today it has 100 stores in the Buffalo territory, another group of 75 around Peoria, Ill. Owned by the socialite Larkin family, it publishes no figures...
Three sons and six grandsons of the founder are in the business, chief executive being John Durant Larkin Jr. His son, Vice President J. Crate Larkin, is a blue-eyed six-footer of 33. A Williams graduate (Class of 1923) he, too, has written a book, From Debts to Prosperity, is an ardent disciple of Britain's Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, high priest of Social Credit. Last week after experimental application of the Douglas theories in his own office, Mr. Larkin announced...