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...schools, got a degree in engineering and a doctorate in medicine. In 1911 he arrived in the U. S., fonder of tinkering with machines than with people. Settling in Cleveland, he married, fathered three children, became president of Sterling Electrical Co. Now he is a free-lance consultant and inventor, has a small laboratory in his apartment. Dr. Longoria does not believe that showmanship does an inventor any harm...
...insolvent in London in 1927, Jonathan Ogden Armour sold to his wife for $1,500,000 a few stock certificates in an unknown company called Universal Oil Products. The Chicago meat packer had backed the little company because it controlled an oil-cracking process developed by that appropriately-named inventor, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. After her husband's death Lolita Sheldon Armour offered her 400 shares of Universal Oil to the Armour creditors, who scorned them. Four years later the Widow Armour, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs and a handful of other stockholders sold out to a group of big oil companies...
Last week in Kansas City a ghost from the past of Universal Oil Products arose to plague a man who had also hoped to share the wealth created by Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. U. S. oil companies did not reward the inventor and his backers out of the goodness of their hearts. To establish its claims to its oil-cracking process, Universal fought many a long patent suit, one of them with Standard Oil of Indiana. Special master in that suit was an obscure Missouri lawyer from Sedalia named Holmes Hall. For his services he was allowed...
Died. Daniel McFarlan Moore, 67, retired inventor of television apparatus; of gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant; on the lawn of his home at East Orange, N. J. Once associated with Thomas A. Edison, slim, mild Inventor Moore had over 100 patents, no known enemies...
...late Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz with whom Electrical Engineer Doherty worker for three years in General Electric Co.'s research laboratories, fostered no political beliefs...