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...Chicago's current Roller Derby occurred last week when a Mrs. Albie Whitney crashed into a railing, broke her shoulder. She and her husband, last married couple in the race, withdrew. Only family team left was 39-year-old Mrs. Josephine Bogash, wife of a Wabash R. R. fireman, teamed with her 19-year-old son Bill...
...Fireman's executives stand high in Portland because they stuck to their home town, though the Pacific Northwest seemed an unlikely spot to start a plant producing a heavy mechanical product for world-wide distribution. Harry Banfield's old contracting partner and predecessor as Iron Fireman's president was killed in an airplane accident in 1928. Mr. Banfield was badly hurt in the same crackup. Quiet, reserved, he still likes to build bridges on the side, sometimes does. Vice President Edward C. Sammons was named "Portland's First Citizen for 1935." Another high-powered Iron Fireman...
...plans, developed an improved model along lines already laid down in big power house installations in which coal is fed from beneath the fire, not dumped in on top. Soon the small stoker was launched nationally under one of the pattest trade names ever coined-Iron Fireman...
Today Iron Fireman Manufacturing Co. is the biggest U. S. maker of mechanical stokers, with plants in Cleveland and Toronto as well as its home town of Portland. Last week at a directors' meeting in Portland President Banfield announced that profits for 1935 were more than $600,000-best year in history except for 1929 when Iron Fireman showed earnings of $770,000. At the same time Iron Fireman's directors voted to increase capitalization 20% to finance expansion. Rights will be given to stockholders to buy 60,000 shares of new stock...
...Iron Fireman has made money every year since it was incorporated in 1926, though profits were pretty slim in the middle of Depression. A large part of the profits have been ploughed back, and a 50% stock dividend was paid in 1934. That year Iron Fireman introduced a model which put coal on nearly an even footing with the automatic appeal of oil or gas, since the coal was conveyed from bin to furnace without the intervention of a shovel. Aside from convenience, the strongest selling point for mechanical stokers is economy. More heat is obtained from less coal. Stokers...