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Expediter. In Tulsa, Harry Eugene Scherer explained why he had laid some ties across a railroad track and stopped a passenger train: he wanted...
...Harry Bridges, Australian head of the West Coast longshoremen, notes in this connection well-known Communist plans to tie up and sabotage U. S. shipping during wartime. He also declares that C. I. O.'s Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, of which "avowed Communist" Marcel Scherer is head, has cells in seven U. S. Navy yards...
Last week, already maker of 90% of the soft gelatin capsules used in the U. S., Bob Scherer was busier than usual. Slugabed still, he got down to the office closer to 11 o'clock than 10, spent most of his days in a big white leather chair in a swanky modernistic office hard by his cocktail bar. But the bar did no business, for Capsuleman Scherer was finishing arrangements for moving his Windsor plant to Toronto, for upping his 1939 production of medicament-filled capsules from...
Three years in father's basement did the job that Mr. Scherer looked back on last week. For when he came up he had a patented process for high-speed manufacture of capsules, made by running strips of gelatin through rotary dies. For filling his capsules, Bob Scherer worked out a machine process that was not only faster but more exact than any of the hand-operated processes he had ever seen. For capital he borrowed $3,000 from his father, raised $2,000 on General Motors stock lent him by his mother-in-law, went to work...
...largest buyer of vitamin compounds in the world. Gelatin Products buys some 60% of its own pharmaceuticals direct, makes a profit on them as well as on its capsules; the rest of the "fill" is supplied by customers for gelatin-packaging. And while his business grows. Managing Partner Scherer still heads for his machine shop after he winds up his office work. His latest project: a seamless capsule...