Word: strop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play is a satiric review, burlesquing the tenure plan, the dining Hall and the strop tease, with a male quartet singing songs between sketches...
...might be the first move in a conspiracy between her servants and outsiders to steal her bell-less oxen. She sent her men out straightway, rounded up five Suk natives and had them flogged vigorously with a tire. When the tire broke, she herself brought up a leather razor strop and the last man was flogged with that. Seventeen days later he died in hospital. Major and Mrs. Selwyn and five servants were jailed. Utterly finished, the major contracted blackwater fever in jail and died too. Mrs. Selwyn fell ill but recovered. Last week she and her servants were...
Gillette Suit. Just before the merger of Gillette Safety Razor Co. with Auto-Strop Safety Razor Co. a small group of Gillette stockholders started suit to have certain directors return $21,000,000 to the company. The minority group claimed that capital had been impaired by $13,000,000, that $8,000,000 was lost when the directors ordered the company to buy 214,000 shares of its own stock at allegedly excessive prices. Some of the stock was purchased from a pool operated by several of the directors. Since then each director except the late King Camp Gillette...
...purchased for our exclusive use and at the cost of millions of dollars a manufacturing process that was amazingly superior to our own," it referred to the Probak-process. Razormen feel that Gillette's "discovery" of the process came about in Probak's damage suit, that Auto-Strop was bought only as the cheaper way out. Soon after the merger was completed, the AutoStrop machinery was moved from New York City to Boston, installed in the Gillette plants. A continuous process, it takes strips of steel, turns them out as finished blades. Last week, almost all Gillette blades...
Gerard Barnes Lambert, son of the founder of Lambert Pharmacal Co. and its onetime president (1923-28), was made president of Gillette Safety Razor Co., succeeding Henry Jaques Gaisman who becomes chairman. Mr. Gaisman has apparently worked his way to dominance in Gillette since the merger with Auto Strop of which he was chairman, for John Edward Aldred, previously chairman and one of the premerger Gillette group, last week resigned. Mr. Lambert's election was a surprise, for since leaving Lambert Co. he has done nothing to indicate he cared to enter the business of razor-making. His interests have...