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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...costs of model railroading vary according to the individual's means, but The Model Railroader finds that the average hobbyist spends $200 to $250 a year. Typical assembly kit for assembling a baggage coach costs $10.50, a passenger coach $11.50. Biggest manufacturer of parts is Scale-Models Inc. of Chicago, headed by tall young (34) Elliott Donnelley, who left the big printing business of which his father is chairman, Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., because of his enthusiasm for model railroads...
Toronto during the past fortnight was also the scene of some mechanical ingenuity. Hospital for Sick Children had only one mechanical respirator, and needed at least one more. The only professional manufacturers of this life-saving device are: Warren E. Collins, Inc. of Boston, which makes respirators designed by Professor Philip Drinker of Harvard's School of Public Health; and J. H. Emerson Co. of Cambridge, Mass., owned by John Haven Emerson, inventive son and namesake of New York City's onetime commissioner of health. The two companies long quarreled over patent infringements. Meanwhile, since 1929 only...
According to the complaint presented by Lawyer Morton, Herbert Fleishhacker in 1919 agreed to let the Anglo Bank lend M. Barde & Sons, Inc. of Seattle and Portland funds to buy steel from the U. S. Shipping Board, in return for which favor he was personally to get half the profits from the sale of the steel. Brothers J. N. and Leonard B. Barde presently received $325,000 from the Anglo Bank, another $175,000 from the Central National Bank of Oakland. The Bardes were successful in their bid for the steel, formed Barde Steel Products Corp. and before long repaid...
...other hopefuls for the $100,000 first prize in Old Gold cigarette's famed rebus puzzle contest (TIME, May 24). News of the award and names of 200 out of 1,000 other prize winners were published last week in 350 U. S. newspapers by P. Lorillard Co. Inc. over three months after the last Old Gold rebus appeared publicly. During this interval the company and its advertising agency, Lennen & Mitchell, had their hands full...
...felt free to try an idea that had buzzed in his head for two years. Eying the booming counter and cafeteria business during Depression, he concluded that Childs, with its managerial overhead already provided for, could offer the cafeteria trade a little more luxury at the same prices. Host, Inc. will try to do so. Swankly modernistic in design, Hosts will have concealed kitchens, service at U-shaped counters. Food is to be identical with Childs food but with less variety and no table-d'hote meals. Prices will be about 20% less. Childs griddlecakes cost 25?. The Hosts...