Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intended to lure moths away from clothing has been put on the market by a Wisconsin manufacturer. Called "Moth Wool," it consists of a package of blue woolen fabric, contains a chemical which kills the eggs laid in it, costs 95?. What the secret of its attraction is the maker refuses to reveal...
...commemorate the building where U. S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis began to practice law in 1878, the St. Louis Bar Association ordered a bronze plaque, scheduled elaborate unveiling ceremonies. Day before the unveiling someone peeked, found that the plaque read "Louis Dembitz Brandies." The plaque-maker worked overtime on his misspelling, had it correct for the ceremony...
Once the largest maker of radios in the U. S., Atwater Kent is the personal property of its ingenious founder. During its peak year, 1929, it turned out nearly 1,000,000 sets, and its total sales were supposed to have been $60,000,000. At that time Mr. Kent was certainly not dubious about the profit possibilities of radio. He rushed a tremendous addition to the plant on Philadelphia's Wissahickon Avenue, starting production in it before the cornerstone was officially dedicated. Visitors were awed by Atwater Kent's luxurious general offices, dumfounded when they peeked through...
...where his father was a physician, Arthur Atwater Kent was sent to Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute on the strength of his youthful preoccupation with electrical and mechanical gadgets. After graduation he worked for a little New Hampshire tool company. In Philadelphia in 1902 he set himself up as a maker of batteries, battery testers and intercommunicating telephone systems. His first plant was in a loft where the floor cracks were so wide that he never needed a dustpan...
...subconscious. He walks in his sleep, a secret sorrow which has delayed for 20 years his marriage to Tessie Weeks (Mary Boland). To secure a gigantic glass-eye order from the owner of a doll factory (George Barbier), he takes his bride to a sanatorium where the doll maker is recovering from an odd disease for which the treatment consists of running around barefoot...