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...uses of soy beans, got Mr. Ford to plant 10,000 acres to soy beans last year, 30,000 this year. From soy bean oil Mr. McCarroll's assistants make lacquer for Ford motor cars. They claim that soy bean lacquer is better than du Font's Duco. From meal which remains after oil is extracted from soy beans, Ford chemists make plastic parts for car bodies. Chemists are now working on bodies made of laminated sheet steel and soy bean plastic. All the equipment needed to process soy beans at a profit fits into an ordinary barn...
...company with its infinite side lines (Fabrikoid, Duco, Cellophane, Rayon, etc., etc.) has made much more money since the War than when it was providing smokeless powder to all the Allies. Military and sporting explosives now rank tenth among the company's money-making enterprises...
...with progressive things." He is a tall lank man who has been found to resemble both Ichabod Crane and Abraham Lincoln. He is Charles Franklin Kettering, vice president of General Motors Corp. He invented the self-starter,* and Delco ignition and farm-lighting units,† fathered Ethyl gasoline** and Duco.‡ Since he contrived the self-starter, he has far transcended tinkering gadgets. He is GM's visionary magician, perched on a high stool whose legs have grown longer and longer as the business has expanded, gazing into the future with the crystal ball of pure scientific theory. Forgiven...
...just been killed cranking a car. Named after Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. which was formed by Mr. Kettering and later became part of GM. **Invented in 1921 after many noxious experiments which filled the laboratories with vile odors. ‡Mr. Kettering's part in the invention of Duco may be much overstated. All the transactions are shrouded in corporate history. Once Mr. Kettering was annoyed by the length of time it took to paint and dry a car. "We might be able to do it in 34 days," he was told. "An hour would be more like...
...roundly applauded speaker Charles Franklin Kettering, long, jointed head of General Motors Corp. Obscure to the general public, Re searcher Kettering deserves fame as inventor of the self-starter (first used Cadillac), as an important contributor the perfection of Duco, Ethyl Frigidaire. Surrounded at home and work by strange mechanical devices simplify life.* Mr. Kettering has that the chief block to progress is the stag nancy of human minds. Less diabolic it first sounds is his theory that and dissatisfaction are the best forces for improvement and progress. week he reiterated his credo that is "a method of keeping everybody...