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...stables of his father's large drygoods store. Before 1901, when the firm sold out, E. A. Ridley & Sons had done $6,000,000 worth of business a year. Down another flight of stairs to a dank subcellar aged Mr. Ridley would go. The air smelled like cool glue. Here, where once had been a well whence Mr. Ridley provided his tenements with cheap water of questionable purity, the strange, 88-year-old man had partitioned off a cheerless office. There were two iron safes, a high counting desk and swivel stool where his clerk sat, and Mr. Ridley...
...round as a hogshead who had been one of the founders of Slade Gorton & Co. in 1849. When he was 16 Tom Carroll was considered experienced enough to split fish. Then he became a skinner, ripping the parchment-like skin from dried fish. The skin is used largely for glue (in Gloucester is Le Page's odoriferous factory) and tearing it from the fish is a delicate job. At 22 Tom Carroll was made foreman of this department and, seven years later, a member of the firm. He distinguished himself by his handling of labor problems, especially...
...Government is George H. Carter (salary: $10,000). In his massive red brick plant near Union Station, he heads the largest printing shop in the world. His payroll numbers 4,845. In 1931 he made and used 185,885 Ib. of ink, 83,957 Ib. of bindery glue. He bought $2,692,297 worth of paper on which 88,524,736 copies of Government publications were turned...
...must be cured (one month to three) and sausage which must hang in the drying rooms four months before being passed by inspectors. Of a 250-lb. hog all but 9.38 Ib. goes into edible products. The residue consists of hides for tanning, hair, skin and sinew good for glue, grease for lubricants, bones for buttons, bone-handles, Mah-Jongg sets and dust. Orientals pay more than $100 per Ib. for hog gallstones. The ultimate remainder is brewed, dried and ground, sold as stock feed. Only the paunch manure is not used for anything. And, as stockroom adage...
...repairs his three Packards and three Duesenbergs by himself, likewise tinkers his radios. Wrigley's P. Ks. were named for him and not because of the slogan: "Packed tight; Kept right." He managed to sell Australians gum by changing the name to "chewing sweets for "gum" was connected with "glue." He has not yet solved the problem of making Orientals chew gum instead of betel nut. To do so would mean 200,000,000 new customers already chew-conscious...