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...dainty little Rose Markward married a knit-goods salesman named Charles Briggs Knox who had precisely $11 left after he had paid the minister. By 1889 the thrifty Knoxes had saved $5,000, invested every cent of it in a tiny gelatine works at Johnstown, N. Y. Last week the 325 employes of the Knox gelatine works joined in presenting 80 yellow roses in a Tiffany vase to Rose Markward Knox as "a birthday remembrance and a token of love, loyalty and appreciation from her business family." This was no empty gesture, for Mrs. Knox, despite her 80 years, still...
...Knox incorporated her company for $300,000. In 1925 this was raised to $1,000,000. Since 1913, Rose Knox's son James has been her assistant. They control the stock, keep profits closely secret. Knox gelatine is currently made in factories at both Johnstown and Camden, N. J., is sold in 300,000 stores the world around. About 80% of Knox sales are plain gelatine, made from calves' bones mostly imported from the Argentine and processed in lime water for six weeks until the gelatine is boiled off.* In 1935, follow-ing competitors JellO, Royal Gelatin...
...jolly octogenarian as benevolent and motherly as she is forceful, Mrs. Knox goes to her office about 9:30 every morning, writes as many as 50 letters before lunch, even replying personally to queries from housewives who have misread recipes. At her Johnstown home, "Rose Hill," she has hothouses full of orchids which she likes to give to fellow townfolk. She has also given them an old ladies' home, athletic field, set of chimes. The Knox factory pretty completely supports Johnstown and in 1929 Knox employes tacked up a plaque in their lobby with the legend HAPPINESS HEADQUARTERS...
...June quarter, 1936. Embattled Youngstown Sheet & Tube managed to clear $2,000,000, off 20% from the June quarter the year before and considerably less than half what it made in the March quarter this year. Bethlehem Steel, with only one plant affected, the Cambria works in Johnstown, Pa., made a relatively good showing- $10,000,000 for the quarter, $18,000,000 for the half. Last year the company earned $3,400,000 in the June quarter, $4,000,000 in the six months. Chicago's Inland Steel, the sixth and least enthusiastic member of "Little Steel," reported...
...Governor Like Me!" The week ended on a note in which comedy was not unmixed with worry for John L. Lewis. Pennsylvania's volatile Governor George Earle, having flown to Johnstown for a surprise speech at the miners' Sunday demonstration, cried to 10,000 rain-drenched unionists: "You don't need violence when you have a man like Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, when you have a liberal Congress in Washington and a Governor like me in Pennsylvania, who respects the workers' rights!" Pledging his assistance in wringing contracts from the steel companies. Governor Earle shouted...