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Born. To Nancy Bruff Clarke, 30, sightly authoress of bawdy, briefly best-selling Manatee, and Edwin Thurston Clarke, 51, Manhattan investment counselor: their first child, a son; in Manhattan, the day her first volume of poems (My Talon in Your Heart) was published. Name: Thurston Bruff. Weight...
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...
...automobile for lack of a spark plug. That is sometimes necessary on the battlefield. Between armaments and slide fasteners, Washington could make only one choice. This week it was busy with inventory surveys, subcontracting plans, conservation drives (see p. 75), but it was not giving any priorities to Talon...
Cloudburst? Whatever is done for towns like Meadville, plants like Talon, must be done quickly, and nobody expected it to be done in time to save all from hardship. At Batavia, N.Y., Doehler Die Casting Co. expected to lay off 200 of its 700 employes soon; Massey-Harris Co. (farm implements) would have to lay off 500 of its 900 within two months unless it got more pig iron; E. N. Rowell Co. (paper boxes; 350 workers) would have to shut down altogether unless it got more paperboard. In Muskegon, Mich., a big Norge Refrigerator plant with 3,400 employes...