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Last week in Los Angeles a Roehm & Haas customer named E. G. Lloyd behaved more spectacularly. Calling in news photographers he pounded Acryloid eyeglasses with a machinist's hammer...
...name is Lewellyn but he is the man who in some of the toughest years in one the toughest industries-Coal-put together the biggest single union in the U. S. Walter Chrysler's middle name is Percy but he is the man who as a young railroad machinist made his first mark by repairing a broken cylinder head on a locomotive in two hours to meet an emergency, who bought his first automobile just to take it completely apart and put it together again with his own hands, who now has put together with those same hands...
...year-old John Frost Winchester went to work as an apprentice machinist in Peabody, Mass. Presently Jack Winchester became one of the first students in a Boston Y. M. C. A. automotive school. He worked on the first automobiles to reach the U. S. from abroad, learned to drive a "steamer," helped devise the first self-starter. In 1913 he landed a job as sales engineer for Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Standard now operates 12,000 trucks and 4,000 cars, second largest fleet in the U. S.* Jack Winchester is manager of the lot. He is also...
...years ago a short, swart poultryman named Paul Onorato decided to do something about a fowl-killing device which would instantly stun and immobilize the victim. He conveyed his ideas to a crack German machinist named Emile Weinaug who built an electrocution device. When it proved sound in principle they took it to the San Francisco plant of Link-Belt Co., which enthusiastically took the machine under its corporate wing, gave Weinaug a job in the tool-room. Link-Belt plans to feel out its market before jumping into quantity production, sell the first machines for $1,500, part...
Last week tall, blond Machinist Weinaug had not yet seen his machine at work in a store. He was in jail awaiting trial on charges of homicide (by pistol...