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...week Gillette was glad to announce it has increased its payroll by 30%. In the chairmanship is Henry Jaques Gaisman, previously on the executive committee, and before that head of AutoStrop Safety-Razor Co. He is active in the company's new management. With long experience as an inventor and razor technician he can face such problems as arose last month when American Safety Razor Corp. put a new Gem on the market. Banker John Edward Aldred resigned last fortnight as chairman of Gillette, but remains a director. Last week it was asserted that the changes which have ended...
Died. William L. Black, 88, sheep raiser, inventor, last surviving charter member of the New York Cotton Exchange; at his ranch near San Angelo, Tex. In the Civil War Mr. Black, then 19, was convicted of piracy, with eight other youths who tried to seize a ship at Panama for the Confederacy...
Behind the bar, clad in white jacket, was the creator of both: versatile, temperamental Artist Author Inventor John Vassos. The room he had created was more original than the spigots. The upper parts were of aluminum; the lower painted grey. Grey predominated, even in the hangings and the seat coverings of the modern furniture, although some of these were Chinese rose or black. Only other color: green spigot handles. One of the critics called the designs "irrational versatility...
...face quite briskly to get different poses while the camera shutter flicks eight times. President is Major General Robert Courtney Davis (retired), onetime Adjutant General of the U. S. Army. Last October Photomaton Inc. and its operating company went into receivership. Whereabouts and activities of Anatol Josepho, Russian-born inventor, who reputedly received $1,000,000 for the Photomaton idea, last week were unknown to company officials...
...Electric & Manufacturing Co. device last week proved the Pittsburgh aphorism that, when Necessity mothers Invention at Westinghouse, the labor is slight. A company engineer goes to work and by & by the requirement is filled. Last week's device was a machine for parking motorcars in a stack. The inventor was Henry Duvall James, 56, consulting engineer. The necessity was finding parking space for the company's Pittsburgh employes...