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...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 and was purchased...
...members who became inactive Jan. 1. Indiana-Nitag. Should a tariff be placed upon petroleum and its products, hard hit would be Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, big importer. Last week Indiana expanded its foreign markets by acquiring a large interest in Germany's N I T A G (Naphtha Industrie und Tankanlagen Aktiengesellschaft) for $1,100,000. Nitag, a distributing company, handles 420.000 bbl. of petroleum products a year. In future a large part of its needs will be filled by Indiana from its Venezuelan fields and refinery on the Island of Aruba. Last spring Indiana obtained...
Whale fat is not used in the U. S. as a base for margarine. But Scandinavian and German margarines contain it. Hydrogenated, snowy white, in the U. S. it goes into Procter & Gamble's "Chipso" and "P & G" naphtha soap. Into New York Harbor last fortnight steamed the Sir James Clark Ross with oil from 1,444 whales for Procter & Gamble...
...return will be for cash, but just what these purchases will be was not divulged last week. Rumor said lumber, coal, mineral ores, petroleum. Chief weakness of Italy's war machine is her great lack of coal and petroleum in commercial quantities. It is known that the Soviet Naphtha Syndicate of Moscow, official distributor of Soviet oil, has set up a subsidiary company in Italy known as Petrolea. Observers guessed that Petrolea will be given the job of stocking the enormous oil reservoirs which Italy's army and navy are now building...
...buys or produces 50% of the total U. S. edible fat production, uses 90% of all whale oil imported into the U. S. Most famed throughout the U. S. is Procter & Gamble's Ivory Soap which is "99 44/100 pure" and "Floats." But P. & G. Naphtha is said to be the largest selling soap in the world. Famed also are P. & G.'s Camay (toilet soap) and Crisco (shortening...