Word: magnetos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago there was privately printed a little booklet entitled: The Rape of the Bosch Magneto Co. Therein is told how Bosch Magneto Co., New York (in which German Robert Bosch owned ten shares out of 250) was seized May i, 1918 by Assistant Alien Property Custodian Francis Patrick Garvan, sold to the highest bidder. Many have been the criticisms of this Wartime act, and only early this year was germanophobic Mr. Garvan acquitted of charges that he and associates defrauded the U. S. Government of some $5,535,000 in the Bosch deal...
Soon after the Bosch company was bought, it was reorganized as American Bosch Magneto Corp. A point brought out by the Rape author was that in 1920, the year after the company was bought for $4,150,000, it earned more than $1,000,000. Since then its profits have fluctuated, averaging over $600,000 for the past five years. Its business falls into three divisions: general magneto sales and replacement division; Ford division (furnishing 60% of Ford's requirements in timers and ignition systems); radio division...
American Bosch Magneto...
...confused with a "booster" magneto, for auxiliary starting ignition, the compressed-air principle is also used in starting ordinary engines in heavier-than-aircraft (e. g. the Heywood starter). Other types are: 1) hand inertia; 2) electric inertia, comparable to the automobile starter, by means of a storage battery; 3) a device inserted into an engine cylinder and employing a 12-gauge shotgun shell. When the shell is fired, it creates enough compression to turn the engine several times. The latter device, invented in France, was first shown in the U. S. by Charles A. Levine. Option for its manufacture...
Another act of Custodian Garvan was to sell the confiscated Bosch Magneto Co. For this he was charged with defrauding the government of $5,500,000 but the case was dismissed last fortnight. From these things he probably conceived his great hate of the Teuton shadow. Last week he accused Senator Moses, former State Attorney General Merton E. Lewis, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn "and his partner Warburg," Oswald Garrison Villard (editor of The Nation), and others, of German propaganda-all in his lengthy written attack on American I. G. Chemical Corp., which he sent to the office of the State...