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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference was attended by the Harvard Committee, and by representatives of undergraduate organizations in 30 other colleges. Speakers included Franz Boas, leading American anthropologist who spoke on "The Nazi Race Myth," Dorothy Thompson, and James G. McDonald, former High Commissioner of the League of Nations. A concrete result of the conference was the erection of a permanent intercollegiate Committee which will stimulate interest in other colleges. Offices are maintained in New York City...
Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who has as bumpy a reputation as a pilot as the former Prince of Wales had as a rider, flew his wife and some friends from Harrisburg to Christmas dinner in Philadelphia. Landing, he upset the plane, hurled passengers against the windshield, luckily killed nobody...
There are but two modern ways of mass-producing glass containers, the "suction" and the "gob" processes. Patents to machinery for the former are held by Owens-Illinois Glass Co., for the latter by the Hartford-Empire Co. Last year 67.4% of all glass containers in the U. S. were made under Hartford-Empire licenses, 29.2% under Owens-Illinois, leaving but 3.4% for independents. Owens-Illinois is a manufacturer, largest of its kind in the world, but Hartford-Empire makes nothing, merely licenses its patents or rents machinery. In 1924, 1932 and 1935 it formed cross-licensing agreements with Owens...
When a Department of Justice assistant produced a memorandum by a former Hartford-Empire lawyer saying one of its "main purposes" was getting patents "on possible improvement of competing machines so as to 'fence in those and prevent their reaching an improved stage," Mr. Smith simply said that was not company policy...
Masterpiece of the $642,000,000 expansion and modernization program initiated by former Chairman Myron Taylor in 1928, the Irvin Works cost around $45,000,000, were built in 19 months, have 51 acres under roof. Located atop a hill to avoid floods, the plant will employ 3,750 men at capacity, whisk steel from slab to sheet at a speed of 20 m.p.h. Last week's celebration dealt largely with these marvels, barely touched upon the wider significance of the Irvin Works to the Steel Industry...