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Special tutoring got him into Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 17, hard work won him his degree in three years instead of four. With the help of his father, he got a job as draftsman in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. at Harrison, NJ. John Wesley Hyatt, who had invented celluloid, was trying to make a go of a new bearing, with little success. When the company was about to go on the rocks, Sloan Sr. bought a controlling interest in it, put in his son to run it. For months, it was touch & go whether the company would continue...
...through the shirt-losing stage. Then A. P. Sloan Jr. got the mushrooming auto industry interested in his bearing for its axles - automakers had been using an ordinary wagon axle, heavily greased. Soon, Hyatt Bearing was making money hand over fist...
Married. Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 27, trim, toothy radio & cinema singer; and Hyatt Robert Dehn, 34, head of Los Angeles' Defense Housing Corp.; she for the first time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...which ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post, is: 1) a lively account of the pioneering days of the U.S. automobile industry; 2) an intimate synoptic history of General Motors; 3) the success story of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., who started as a $12.50-a-week draftsman in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co., about three years later was running the company...
HARRIET E. RAYMOND Celluloid Corp. New York City ; True, John Hyatt pioneered plastics with the invention of Celluloid in 1868 (he was after a $10,000 prize for a synthetic billiard ball). But not until Dr. Baekeland invented non-inflammable synthetic resin did the modern plastics industry come into...