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...clock-General Time Instruments, Inc. Last week for the first time this name appeared on the New York Stock Exchange. As unfamiliar to the average investor as to the average clock owner, GTI is known by its two chief subsidiaries, Western Clock Co. ("Big Ben") and Seth Thomas Clock Co. of Thomaston, Conn. These two old family enterprises were put together in 1930 to form the company which now accounts for one-third of the entire U. S. clock business. Instead of celebrating this union with a stock party for the public, GTI merely swapped its shares for the holdings...
Oldest of GTI's two venerable subsidiaries is Seth Thomas, which dates back to 1813 when a young Yankee gathered tools and helpers to make grandfather clocks in Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley. At first the parts were wooden and fitted only one clock. Later clockmakers shifted to brass and eventually evolved precision methods, interchangeable parts. Clock-making was the first real mass production in the U. S. No Connecticut craftsman built better than Seth Thomas I, few as well, and by 1853 he had sold enough clocks to organize a formal company with $75,000 capital, sizable money...
Founder Thomas did not live to see his home town renamed Thomaston, but he left a good business and an honorable tradition to Seth Thomas II and other sons, who passed them on to Seth Thomas III and finally to Seth Thomas IV. The Thomases stuck to quality products, but their line broadened to include nearly everything from delicate chronometers to the world's biggest clock, installed in 1924 in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's Jersey City plant for the benefit of commuters across the Hudson River. Seth Thomas IV was president of his family concern from 1915 until...
Only at Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley, and Seth Low, of Brooklyn, did any of these measures reach or pass the 50 per cent mark...
...Seth Marshall Fitchet, M.D. '24, Assistant in Orthopedic Surgery at the Medical School, will be Assistant Surgical Advisers...