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...Tobe Deutschmann Co. was down to 40 workers ("all engineers and no workmen"), from 200 in 1928. His machinery was rusting, the floors sagging, windows broken, ceilings cobwebbed. Grass grew in the driveway that led to the Rising Sun Stove Polish factory he bought in plush '28. Tobe's engineers became expert in repairing broken-down equipment with bailing wire and tweezers. The only way they kept alive at all was on small specialty jobsקike keeping the tenants from moving out of an apartment house en masse because of radio static, whose source they finally traced...
Such a pooling of orders has already been partially imposed on the stove industry (TIME, May 25). Its extension to many other industries on an all-out national scale requires some wartime modification of the anti-trust laws. Over that formality four Congressional committees the Army, the Navy, WPB and the Attorney General's office are already tangled in a fine...
...What civilian production there is will be more & more concentrated in small plants. This policy was implicit in a WPB order to the stove and range industry: after July 31, all normal production must come from the 250-odd plants of companies with annual sales of $2,000,000 or less; 92 larger plants must...
Rubber used to grow on trees (Hevea brasiliensis): now it flowers in the imagination of would-be inventors all over the U.S. They cook strange messes on the kitchen stove, squeeze out plant juices in home laboratories, and set out for Washington bearing black or tawny samples. Last week's arrival was Dr. Glenn L. Casto, dentist of Spencer...
Perhaps those who appreciated him most were the 8,000 women in Chicago's slums whom Dr. DeLee had delivered of babies during his 40-odd years of practice. In 1895, the poor young physician, son of Jewish immigrant parents, scraped together $500, collected a stove, table, chairs and linen, bought two secondhand beds, and started Chicago's first free maternity dispensary in a $12-a-month tenement flat...