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Twelve years ago he was a foundryman in a Detroit war plant. Today Yerby lives on the French Riviera with his tiny, light-skinned wife Flora and their four children. When he is not whipping out profitable prose in his villa garden in Cimiez, Nice. Author Yerby goes skin-diving in the Mediterranean, skiing in the Alps or whizzing off in his Jaguar XK 120 to attend sports-car races...
...despair. A big motivation has been industry's dynamic urge to diversify and get new markets. In the nation's two previous great merger waves-after the turn of the century and in the Roaring Twenties-consolidations were mainly within industries. The theory was that only a foundryman, for instance, could run a foundry properly. But in recent years industry has spawned a new kind of professional manager who can step into virtually any business, find the weak spots and strengthen them. Today management thinks nothing of buying into unrelated fields...
...answer of the young foundryman...
...patents for $25,000 but preferred to gamble on their validity. The process was originally suggested at the Lawrence Experimental Station in Massachusetts in 1890. Further experiments were carried on in Manchester, England. About 1914 patents on the process were taken out in England and elsewhere by a British foundryman named Walter Jones. He formed Activated Sludge, Ltd., died in 1922. An American named Edgar C. Guthard, the U. S. licensee, and Activated Sludge, Ltd. sued Chicago's Sanitary District in 1924 for patent infringements. In 1927 Guthard formed Activated Sludge, Inc. and it joined...
...Woodin's father had a foundry at Berwick, Pa. where he was born. As a college graduate the son was put into this shop, cleaning castings at 90? per day. It was hateful work for an esthete like young Will Woodin. Once he became an expert foundryman, he fled to Europe to study music. Recalled by his father, he entered...