Word: gm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada's pitchblende deposits at Great Bear Lake are about ready to produce 1 gm. of radium for 10 tons of ore in six weeks and a score of refining steps (against the Belgian Congo method of 3 mo. and 40 steps). Some 4,000 gm. of radium concentrates are ready for the refinery at Port Hope, Ontario. The Canadian process promises much cheap radium for the world, new wealth for Canada...
...Ichabod Crane and Abraham Lincoln. He is Charles Franklin Kettering, vice president of General Motors Corp. He invented the self-starter,* and Delco ignition and farm-lighting units,† fathered Ethyl gasoline** and Duco.‡ Since he contrived the self-starter, he has far transcended tinkering gadgets. He is GM's visionary magician, perched on a high stool whose legs have grown longer and longer as the business has expanded, gazing into the future with the crystal ball of pure scientific theory. Forgiven and forgotten is his classic blunder of ten years ago, the air-cooled Chevrolet motor which...
Ever since Mr. Kettering moved into his present home he has delighted in filling it with gadgets to make life easier: buttons to open and close windows, eleven Frig-idaires, a cooling system. This became his pet hobby. Had it no Charles Franklin Kettering, GM would probably not be entering the air conditioning field now. He feels many of the developments in the temperate zone have been due to temperature-control in winter and is excited at the thought of what temperature-control in summer may bring about...
...Edward Andrew Deeds, now chairman of National Cash Register Co., and sold to the Lelands who then owned Cadillac. One of their friends had just been killed cranking a car. Named after Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. which was formed by Mr. Kettering and later became part of GM. **Invented in 1921 after many noxious experiments which filled the laboratories with vile odors. ‡Mr. Kettering's part in the invention of Duco may be much overstated. All the transactions are shrouded in corporate history. Once Mr. Kettering was annoyed by the length of time it took to paint...
Some of the vague "improvement noted" indications during August had been translated into definite figures by last week. General Motors reported that during August its dealers sold 13.3% more cars to customers than in July. But, overstocked, they had bought fewer from GM. Smaller companies also reported that August had shown a gain. Bulls were prone to say that the first half of August had been bad, that the gains resulted from a whizzbang finish which may carry into September. They took cheer from the knowledge that the average automobile bouncing along the highway today is four years...