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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illinois State line, could say he was manufacturing in the other State if anyone asked for his license. Now his company has two subsidiaries, turns out a variety of products: compounds to waterproof wooden wagon wheels, oil to keep posters from warping, oils for paints and duplicator inks, a shoe filler (0. E.'s only patent) used by Florsheim to replace felt, an oil compound that gives transparency to one-piece window envelopes, etc. Small but sound, Scientific boasts a record free from layoffs, pay cuts, labor trouble. In its last published statement (1936) it reported earning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Benign Boss | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...shoe Fritz..." said his chum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SCOTCH AND SELTZER FOR ME & MICHIGAN by 20 POINTS"--SAGE | 10/11/1940 | See Source »

Some time ago General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the émigrés of 1940, went to see Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears, a tall, hearty, wealthy part-owner of shoe and cement factories and of a hotel chain, then (as in World War I) liaison officer between French and British High Commands. The British had just about concluded that General de Gaulle was a mediocrity, who by accident had achieved world prominence, not to be taken very seriously. But his story to General Spears was entirely plausible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Fiasco at Dakar | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...exercises at which the President was to get an honorary degree, seventh U. S. President to be so honored by Penn,* marched some 15,000 Pennsylvanians, biggest crowd of the Bicentennial week. There was a momentary disturbance at the door when a shirt-sleeved man walked in with a shoe box. Half a dozen police pounced on him, gingerly opened his box, found that it was full of Roosevelt buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 200 Years of Penn | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...Greek and Latin. Titular head of the committee now is Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the committee of Admissions, while Beatrice M. Taussig, daughter-in-law of Professor Taussig, the economist, is in active charge. Gerald F. Else '29, instructor in Greek and Latin, is treasurer. Operating on a shoe string, the committee meets its few expenses through private donations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY GROUP FINDS HOMES FOR 50 BRITISH CHILDREN | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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