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...years while waiting for the right tune. Promoter Densmore went into debt, slept in a garret, wore shabby clothes and often lived on apples and soda crackers. During that time, he prodded Sholes into turning out machine after machine. When Densmore got a new model, he gave it to a compliant friend with precise instructions: "Give it a good thrashing. Find out its weak spots . . . Sholes is sick of experimenting, but I am going [to] make the thing work or pound the hell...
...Student Union is a pre-fabricated building that houses student organization's meeting rooms and offices, mail boxes, a supply store, a lounge, the College print shop, and a soda and hamburg bar. But the students who snack at the latter are more likely to be stag than dating...
Said John Olin: "It's a natural combination. Mathieson makes ammonia; Olin uses ammonia. Mathieson makes caustic soda; Olin uses caustic soda. Mathieson built up from basic chemicals into consumer products; Olin went from consumer products down into the chemical field . . . The two companies dovetail...
...phenomenal growth since the end of World War II. Olin branched out from shotgun shells, dynamite and rifles into batteries, Cellophane, fabricating metals, lumber, brass, creosoting, cigarette paper, polyethylene food bags and compressed-air coal-breaking equipment. When Nichols took it over in 1948 Mathieson was making caustic soda, liquid chlorine, nitrogen and soda ash. Nichols expanded into fertilizer, sulphuric acid, petrochemicals, insecticides and-by buying out E. R. Squibb & Sons-into drugs and Pharmaceuticals. Says John Olin confidently: "We will continue to grow...
...Hill, a freshman cartoonist, has done four cartoons for this issue, and J.F. Fletcher, another freshman, contributed two. Although Hill's Greek with soda machine is somewhat funny, his other efforts are not even up to that level. "April Showers," especially, is a poor attempt at Charles Addams. Both of the new cartoonists show promise; Hill needs a little less obviously painstaking drawing style, and Fletcher could do with some original ideas...