Word: makers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...German potato chip maker...
...liberal, almost Socialistic Democrat, was elected to the New York State Senate, storming Manhattan's "Silk Stocking District" during a Republican landslide. He kept his seat until 1926. He has long been in the crockery business. His company, Nathan Straus & Sons Inc., is the biggest U. S. maker of hotel & restaurant equipment. He is an Elk, a Moose. Most Manhattanites regard him, chiefly for his long-time interest in city parks and planning, as one of their most civic-minded...
Died. Henry Martyn Leland. 89, "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry"; after a month's illness; in Detroit. A tool maker in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal (rifles) during the Civil War, he invented the barber's clippers while later employed by Brown & Sharp, machinery manufacturers. After building naphtha launch engines, Motormaker Leland turned to automobiles, produced the first Cadillac in 1904, later sold out to General Motors Corp. In 1917 he organized Lincoln Motor Co. to produce Liberty Motors for the Federal Government. Converted to automobile production after the War, the Lincoln company failed...
...ever questioned the American Medical Association's power to quell a quack completely, the Association's Journal last week detailed its handling of Norman Baker. He flourished at Muscatine, Iowa, in a region of many unorthodox Corn Belt medical ideas.* Originally the man was a die-&-tool maker, then a builder of calliopes. Somehow he got into merchandising, sold radios, storage batteries, flour, coffee, canned fruits, silverware, brooms, alarm clocks, overcoats, mattresses, motor car tires, typewriters, paints...
Faber invented the nickel-plating of pencil tips, pencil point protectors, rubber tips. In its line are the Mongol colored pencils ("Paint with Pencils"), weatherproof pencils, eyebrow pencils. Newspapermen like its Black Knight, a blunt pencil not likely to break in a crisis. Faber claims to be the largest maker of erasers and recently offered rubber bands in pastel shades. It is thought to make 25% of popular-priced pencils. Its line comprises 250 varieties not including various degrees of hardness which sometimes run as high as 18 to a pencil...