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While the U. S. was hemming over its railroads and Britain hawing over her steel, five big British cutlery makers in Sheffield acted. Last week the U. S. Department of Commerce reported that the five are lumping all their orders for scissors, manufacturing all scissors in one plant and shipping them to the members of the group for delivery...
...Rustless Iron Corp. of America of which he is chairman and chief backer, and this time he won a clear victory. Rustless Iron was launched in 1926 to exploit the U. S. rights to a simple process for making stainless steel, developed by a fat, genial Briton from Sheffield named Ronald Wild. The Wild process combines chromium and steel in one step where other processes take three steps. Shortly before Metallurgist Wild retired because of poor health in 1931, Charlie Payson became visible in the light of fireworks in Rustless Iron stock...
...Emparan, 91, only living daughter of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, prominent in California's Mexi can regime (ended 1846) and founder of Santa Rosa, Calif., whence the ship's name. Strong, silent, homely Film Actor Gary Cooper asked the New York Supreme Court for an injunction restraining Sheffield Farms Co. (dairy products) from further circulation of an advertisement bearing his name and picture. He claimed damage to his reputation because he was represented as drinking milk "to build up his health and strength...
Strings of 100, common enough in other events, are almost unheard of in the Grand American. When Arthur E. Sheffield, railway postal clerk of Dixon. Ill., firing from 21 yd., broke 98 out of 100 last week he felt fairly confident about it. An experienced trapshooter but hitherto unfamed, he started shooting in 1912, gave it up in disgust at his inefficiency in 1917, started to shoot again four years ago. Last year he won his first big tournament, the Illinois State Handicap. Last week, after waiting for several other shooters who knew his posted score to crack when they...
Commander-Larabee was formed in 1926 by a merger of the Larabee mills of Kansas with the Commander group in Minneapolis. The Larabee mills were started by Fred and Frank Larabee in their home town of Hutchinson, Kan. The Commander mills were originated by Banker Benjamin Belcher Sheffield, now head of Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association, W. H. Sudduth, a farmer, and W. D. Gregory. Messrs. Sheffield & Sudduth sold out to a group which included Shreve McLaren Archer, 40, head of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., one of the biggest linseed crushing companies in the World. In 1930 his company bought control...