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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Container Corp. Robert Gair Co. is the leading folding-box maker. Container Corp. is dominant in containers, has boxboard mills with a capacity of 1,200 tons per day. Last week Container Corp. absorbed the $5,000,000 Sefton Mfg. Corp., whose products include folding-boxes. Through this deal Container Corp. became a complete unit in the industry, in a position to expand until it becomes "the U. S. Steel of Paperboard companies." Although many more mergers must take place before such a centralization can be effected, paperboard makers hope it will happen, believe that such is the desire...
...Harvard in 1908 and became Austin Teaching Fellow in 1910 and again in 1912 in 1914 he became Curator of North American Archeology at the Peabody Museum and conducted excavations at Pecos, New Mexico, for Phillips Andover Academy. He is the author of several books among which are "Basket-maker Caves of Northeastern Arizona" and "Introduction to Southwestern Archeology...
Others in this class included Auto-Hydro-Craft's metal boats, Dee Wite, and four Hacker Craft, cheapest of which was a 24-footer at $3,150. Aeolian Co., whose wood products include pianos, and pipe organs, showed the Aco "Seaboats." Meteor Motor Car Co., a hearse-maker who last year turned to motorboats, did not show...
Died. Wilhelm Maybach, 84, oldtime motor maker, inventor of the spray carburetor, honeycomb radiator, change-speed gear, designer of the first Mercedes automobile (1900) ; at Stuttgart, Germany. At his Maybach Motor Works, the motors of the Graf Zeppelin were constructed...
...19th Century, after countless years of elaboration, the craft of the carriage maker had attained near-perfection. Then the automobile appeared on the vehicular horizon. In the early years of automobile manufacture the traditions of the ancient carriage craft were continued. The first automobile engine was mounted on a buggy chassis. The new vehicle was popularly associated with its predecessor and nicknamed the "horseless carriage" and "gasoline buggy." Ex-carriage makers became automobile body designers. Early cars were frequently entered from the rear (dog cart), equipped with horsewhip stands, often painted black and usually festooned with fringe, beautified with brass...