Word: timken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry H. Timken, president of Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, began to spend virtually a million dollars last week so that Dr. Orval James Cunningham of Kansas City, Mo., might study and test his treatment of certain cases of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer by putting the patients in tanks filled with air under pressure. Mr. Timken has spent $165,000 for a ten-acre plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet...
None the less, Manufacturer Henry H. Timken has been willing to spend a million dollars to give a full test to the doctor's theories. This is no whim of Mr. Timken who is well known in Canton for his secret philanthropies, especially for supplying medical aid to indigents...
...Percenters. The Ford company paid 100% and more dividends for years. Mr. Prentiss cited two other 100 percenters- Timken Brothers who in 1901 built a $100,000 steel mill at St. Louis; Sterling Products Co. of Wheeling, W. Va., makers of Castoria and Dr. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin and other proprietary medicines that give yearly profits of $2,500,000. Ford Credit. "I'd say that the Ford Motor Car Co. as a credit proposition equals the United States Steel Corp., the Standard Oil Co., General Electric arid General Motors."-Mr. Prentiss...
...silenced chassis"; new bodies, new Duco colors. Star offers "more power and superior quality . . . new body lines, new colors, new mechanical refinements." Studebaker stresses "The President"; "custom car without custom car cost." Stutz. Safety glass in all windows and windshield, with no extra cost; new braking system built by Timken; free "indemnity against loss of use resulting from theft." Fred E. Moskovicz, active, able president of Stutz Motor Car Co., returned from Europe last week. His weightiest statement was that his French consulting engineer and agent, Signor Bugatti, "the greatest automobile engineer in Europe," will produce a car twice...
...week of unproductive sleuthing, forced the suspension of their local police chief, Seranus Lengel, who had been one of Mellett's prominent targets. There was even talk of changing Canton's form of city government. Canton's leading citizen, Manufacturer H. H. ("Roller Bearings") Timken, fumed over the unemotional attitude of the Citizens' Cleanup Committee, vowing he would "get some damned action" or resign...