Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settled in court. If Mr. Weir wins it will be a sad setback for Senator Wagner. Budd Manufacturing. Next most vexing case to Senator Wagner concerns Edward Gowen Budd, Philadelphia manufacturer who built up a big business in all-steel automobile bodies and now is be- ginning to make stainless steel streamlined trains. Last November 1,300 of his workers went on strike charging that the company was trying to prevent the A. F. of L. from organizing its plants. The Regional Labor Board ordered Budd to take back the strikers and hold an election. Budd refused and refused again...
...gratitude but also needs the restatement of many of his principles. ... If, as the world pauses to celebrate his birth four and a half centuries ago, it would rear a shaft of reverent devotion to his living memory, although that monument might be built from flawless granite, faced with stainless alabaster, edged with the rarest of marbles and raised to the loftiest heights to which human skill can ever ascend, this monument would be incomplete unless, in recognition of Luther's present day significance, there were emblazoned on its side in letters of imperishable gold, the challenge of this...
...Payson travels much, drives an imposing Rolls-Royce, likes to cruise north in his yacht to Portland, Me. where his family have long been leading bankers. With a clear course for his Rustless Iron, he is now in a fair way to becoming dominant power in the sturdy young stainless steel business. His chief Rustless lieutenant on the technical side is Dr. John Otho Downey, a bright-eyed gentleman who until the War was a physician, then turned geologist, later economist, and now at 50 is studying...
...made news with another suit. This time it was for 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...
...American Stainless Steel, licensing concern jointly owned by several big independent steel companies, and an alloy-making subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon promptly filed suit for patent infringement. The suit dragged out until last week, cost Rustless Iron nearly $500,000 and considerable business from buyers fearful thatthe company would lose the suit and make them liable for damages. So simple is the Wild process that Rustless Iron can make stainless steel at a substantially lower cost than other patent steels. Bulk of its $1,000,000 sales go to Ford, General Motors, American Rolling Mills, Superior Steel...