Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a Sunday night radio address in honor of Brotherhood Day, sponsored by Jews and Christians. In view of the various reasons for his unpopularity with many of the pious, the speech was of political rather than religious importance. Although his Episcopal training kept him from invoking his Maker, he mentioned Him twice, saying: "The vision of the early days [of the U. S.] still requires the same qualities of faith in God and man for its fulfillment. No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival . . . that would sweep through the homes of the Nation...
...Lifebuoy), was Britain's famed high-wages-&-short-hours Prophet. Procter & Gamble (Ivory) was an early experimenter with the guaranteed work year and employe representation on the board of directors. Last week two other household soap names made social news. One was Samuel Simeon Fels, scholarly septuagenarian maker of Fels Naptha. The other was J. (for James) Crate Larkin, vice president of Buffalo's Larkin Co., Inc., makers of the soap U. S. children sell their parents' friends for the sake of Larkin premiums...
Fairey is a significant name in the British war plane industry. Mr. Charles R. Fairey of Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd., maker of "Fairey Ships," readily testified that his product is cheaper than similar fighting planes made by U. S. firms and that "Fairey sells to all." Cried shocked Professor Harold Gutteridge, a Royal Commissioner: "You have supplied planes to the Soviet Government...
Neither bottle maker nor flat-glass maker is Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y., famed as caster of the two 200-in., 20-ton telescope mirrors which are the world's biggest pieces of glass (TIME, April 12, 1934). Corning is a closely-held, privately-owned company dominated by the Houghton family, glass makers since one Amory Houghton built a glass plant in Somerville, Mass, in 1851. Nominal head of the company is Alanson Bigelow Houghton, who was U. S. Ambassador to Germany (1922-25), later U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1925-29). At 72, the onetime...
Today Iron Fireman Manufacturing Co. is the biggest U. S. maker of mechanical stokers, with plants in Cleveland and Toronto as well as its home town of Portland. Last week at a directors' meeting in Portland President Banfield announced that profits for 1935 were more than $600,000-best year in history except for 1929 when Iron Fireman showed earnings of $770,000. At the same time Iron Fireman's directors voted to increase capitalization 20% to finance expansion. Rights will be given to stockholders to buy 60,000 shares of new stock...