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...knowledge of manufacturing. A graduate of Annapolis, where he was a classmate of Admiral Leahy, Harry Kimball failed to stay in the Navy because he was one of the seasickest midshipmen ever enrolled. Instead he went to work for Boston Edison, became president of American Zinc, later went to Remington Arms, which he piloted through World...
...Cable Corp. Grounds: their pay is not "substandard and has already been upped at least 15% in the past 16 months-more than enough to cover the rise in the cost of living. A similar decision was handed down two weeks ago in denying a raise to 1,200 Remington Rand workers, but without any such clear explanation of "uniform and universal application...
...responsible for a reduced ratio of waste and for redoubled suggestions from employes. Two of the posters have been lithographed and distributed to 7,000 Douglas suppliers, also to some 450 other industries. Among the firms using Tokio Kid posters are Vultee Aircraft, Diamond Tool, Chrysler, Remington Rand, Westinghouse, Western Electric, Carnegie-Illinois Steel. No other wartime Industrial poster has caught on like the Kid. This week the Treasury began using him to sell war bonds...
...room was hot and tempers hotter. The Justice Department was conducting a drive along the lines of its Standard Oil action three weeks ago (Time, April 6, et seq.). Gape-jawed Senators were told that General Electric (through its subsidiary Carboloy Co., Inc.) and Remington Arms (Du Pont-controlled) had conspired with German munitions interests (Krupp and I. G. Farben) to monopolize vital war materials, restrict their availability to the U.S. and Britain. Angry Carboloy and Remington officials made the familiar reply: if they had not made a deal to get.the German patents, the U.S. would have entered...
...Carboloy's was cemented tungsten carbide, an exceedingly hard metal composition important for cutting tools. Remington Arms' was tetracene, an ammunition primer, which, the Justice Department contended, the ever-logical Germans licensed Remington to sell to the British "for shooting quail and pheasants but not for shooting Germans...