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...bales); 500,000 bushels of wheat (current production 792,332,000 bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol and flax. Imported materials would be cork, rubber, tung oil and ramie, Egyptian mummy-wrapping fibre. Best of all, wheat, corn and soybeans are interchangeable. Ford can use all three, or only...
...screen process has long been used in decorating textiles, wallpaper, bottle labels, 5-&10?-store drinking glasses. Anthony Velonis, who was trained at New York University, began working with silk screen on a WPA art project. He uses a stencil cut out of a plastic, or built up with glue, on fine bolting silk, through which paint is squeegeed and imprinted on paper. For each color a separate stencil is used. An average print takes from four to ten stencils...
Richard Wilhelm's glue did not make his company famous because the general public never bought it. Stronger than fish glue (LePage's, etc., for the home) and vegetable glue (for envelopes), animal glue is used by makers of furniture, abrasives, playing cards. And Richard Wilhelm's wealth did not make him famous because he hated publicity of any sort...
...German immigrant, Wilhelm (then 31) left glue-jobbing for glue-making in 1897, resolved to make a million dollars in ten years. He chose Gowanda (near Buffalo) because it had a tanning industry, and animal glue is made chiefly from the fleshing of hides. He made his first million in seven years and began to expand. First he bought up the old Peter Cooper Corp., whose famed founder, a New York philanthropist (Cooper Union), was a glue pioneer. By 1930 he had bought competitors in Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Hammond, Ind., Springdale, Pa. and Brantford, Ont. He hated travel...
...childless glue king's will, 19 words written in 1910, left half the U. S. animal glue industry to his widow, Alice E. (Woodward) Wilhelm. Last week, as the sorrow and confusion in the company subsided, she was elected chairman of Peter Cooper Corp.'s board. Chosen president was William J. Gunnell, Buffalo accountant and recently executive vice president. An outdoors man, he has made bird collections for Buffalo's Museum of Natural Sciences. To newsmen looking for a new glue king, Accountant Gunnell offered a silence worthy of his predecessor. The chairman, it was explained...