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...Boss Ket's Way. It was back in 1928 that G.M.'s Alfred P. Sloan asked Chief Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering why the diesel was so cumbersome. Boss Ket snapped back: because the engineers persist in making them so. Shortly after, Boss Ket went to work simplifying and lightening diesels. Into his experiments G.M. put $25,000,000, including the purchase of a plant for locomotives at La Grange...
...invention is moving out of the garret and into the laboratories of Big Business. Packard's Macauley and General Motors' famed inventor, Charles F. Kettering, felt, however, that even in laboratories patents have value both as protection during the "shirt-losing" stage and as incentives. Said "Boss Ket": "The young fellows look on them just like diplomas...
Only company to imitate Campbell's condensed soups in a big way was Phillips Packing Co., a smallish, flamboyantly aggressive concern with headquarters in Cambridge, in the heart of Maryland's fertile Eastern Shore vegetable belt. Phillips not only crashed the U. S. soup mar ket with a condensed soup; it sold...
...months of 1935 at 2,348,000 cars & trucks, a half-year figure exceeded only twice in history - 1929 and 1926. And ignoring for once the confusion of Washington news, the stockmarket climbed last week to the highest level of the year. Since last March when the ma ket upswing began, the Dow-Jones average of industrial stocks has rallied with only one serious interruption (at the death of the Blue Eagle) from 96.7 to 122.6, a gain of more than...
...Detroit Inventor Kettering's domain is the big research building of General Motors Corp. The staff which calls him "Boss" (but his close friends prefer "Ket") is as large today as it was in 1929. Public appearances, consultations and the business of enjoying the millions of dollars he has earned have demanded more of Mr. Kettering's hours than ever. One of his appearances occurred last week when he spoke to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see p. 34). As usual he spoke about his all-absorbing credo of change. "We have reason...