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Died. Edwin Scott Votey, 74, first vice president of Aeolian Co., inventor of the pianola player-piano and the first Aeolian pipe organ, director of many a musical instrument company; in Summit...
...Ogden Armour disappeared from the boulevards of Chicago, and his fortunes crashed and he died in London, the cycle of his family has swung low, then started up again. Last month his widow realized handsomely on one of his characteristic plunges, an investment in the oil-cracking process of Inventor Carbon Petroleum Dubbs (TIME, Jan. 21). And last month the Supreme Court released Chicago packers from the consent decree of 1920 by which they were obliged to restrict themselves to the meat business despite competition in meats from the grocery chains. Swift & Co. last week availed itself of this release...
Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the "Dymaxion House", a radical type of house designed to meet living conditions of the future, will speak before the New England section of the Harvard Engineering Society at the Harvard Club of Boston Wednesday night at 7.45 o'clock...
...Carbon. Technical name for the condensed oil is "hydro-carbonated vapors." Therefore Inventor Dubbs had named one of his sons "Carbon." When Son C. A. and Son Carbon worked together in Universal Oil Products, fellow-workers were confused, so Son Carbon took a middle initial, "P." They expanded it to "Petroleum." After his father's death, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs worked hard to perfect the invention. He increased the company's patent holdings to more than 1,000, issued and pending. Last week he, 49, once poor, grey now and serious-eyed, received $3,582,045 for his share...
...looking, keen-eyed Mrs. Armour this good fortune meant the added satisfaction of being able to receive her old friends under more fitting circumstances than she had been able to in the modest Sheridan Road flat she has occupied (though with pride and dignity) for almost four years. To Inventor Dubbs, who has been living quietly on his Universal Oil Products salary and dividends at Wilmette, III. it meant wealth on which he may take his first vacation in 20 years and by which he may give his three children future advantages. That he will not spend it lavishly...