Word: glidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double-Barreled Paint Gun. Chicago's Binks Manufacturing Co. announced a new paint gun with two nozzles which speeds the drying of paint. While the paint (Glidden Co.'s new resin, Nu-Pon A) is shot from one spray head, a fluid catalyst issues from the other, quickly combines with the paint to help it dry quickly. The gun is necessary because the reaction will only take place when paint and catalyst meet at the moment of application. Price...
...Thomas Glidden, president of Beta Theta Pi last week told the Brown Buildings and Grounds department, that he suspected members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon of stealing the flags "in what was apparently a planned thing...
Color & Confusion. Competition in the paint industry, long confined to quality, has spilled over into color. Companies like Glidden and Sherwin-Williams now put out elaborate sample books, complete with swatches of color and detailed advice to help housewives do a complete decorating job themselves. Housewives are no longer restricted to a small choice of colors. To help them further, Colorizer Associates has begun selling 16 pigments in tubes that can be mixed easily with a base paint. When one tube is added to a can, the color is guaranteed to match a color chart...
When Fair Deal trustbusters three years ago charged nine of the biggest U.S. paint companies with conspiring to fix prices, seven of the accused pleaded nolo contendere and paid $5,000 fines apiece. Only E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and the Glidden Co. decided to fight the charge. During a 50-day jury trial in Pittsburgh's federal district court, Du Pont and Glidden argued that they had exchanged price information but had not fixed prices. Their licensing of patents on lacquer, they insisted, was well within...
Last week the jury brought in its verdict: not guilty. Glidden's President Dwight P. Joyce estimated the trial cost his company $100,000, but he thought it was worth the fight. Said he: "Had we pleaded nolo contendere, we would have had to pay only $5,000. But it was well worth the $95,000 to take the stigma off the company's name. And maybe it will encourage other companies to fight flimsy charges...