Word: taloned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Talon does not get its metal, Meadville will get-and get good-what it escaped in 1932. Said white-haired Chamber of Commerce Secretary M. Ward Williams last week: "Meadville's never thought it was bigger than Uncle Sam, and if he tells us we've got to take it we will. But we'll think it's unfair as hell...
...Business. Talon Inc. began with the harebrained idea of Inventor Whitcomb L. Judson, who had trouble lacing his shoes and decided that there must be an easier way. It grew up under Colonel Lewis Walker, who wore Judson's invention on his high-topped shoes and gave up law at the age of 60 to devote his full time and fortune to making Judson's "clasp locker and unlocker" a success...
Argument for Priorities. Last month William C. Arthur, Talon's president since 1939, went to Washington to present the zipper industry's plea for survival to OPM-OPACS. Because slide fasteners have tiny parts with precision fittings, the industry had to use an easily workable copper base. Talon made its fasteners of either nickel silver (65% copper, 18% nickel, 17% zinc) or gilding metal (85% copper, 15% zinc). But to operate at the last twelve months' rate (440,000,000 fasteners), the industry needed just 6,300 tons of copper a year (.6% of U.S. production...
Some of these manufacturers have got rid of their button-sewing machines, would have to retool if slide fasteners were cut off. Some of them make products (like trick keycases, children's snowsuits, etc.) to which slide fasteners were a sine qua non. To replace all fasteners would, Talon estimates, take 1,300,000,000 buttons a year-and on Arthur's desk were orders from companies he had never heard of before, which wanted fasteners because they were already having trouble getting enough buttons...
...Talon's machines, which stamp zipper teeth out of metal tape and fasten them in a row on fabric, would be useless for anything else. Its workers (like those of other industries) would have to be retrained before they could work on defense orders. But its efficient tool shop (which has developed and made the company's own precision machinery) could go to town on orders for small items such as cartridge cases, instrument parts, bomb & shell fuses. Already the company had filled some defense orders for gauges (as well as for fasteners on Army uniforms and sleeping...