Word: timken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Antitrust. Monopolists were having a rough time. In a Cleveland federal court, Timken Roller Bearing Co. was convicted of conspiring with its British and French affiliates to fix world prices of roller bearings and restrict competition. In Manhattan, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., National Lead Co. and three individuals were fined a total of $43,000 (the maximum) for operating a worldwide cartel in titanium pigments. The companies were already under court order to license titanium production at a reasonable royalty...
...plug Detroit's Timken Silent Automatic Oil Burner, Dean Robinson handed out architects' sketches of houses, along with a folder of building information. So many people wrote in for blueprints that Timken was swamped. Robinson thought Timken should go into the business of supplying blueprints. But Timken said no. So Robinson quit and decided to do it himself. He teamed up with Designer Richard D. Pollman, 33, and two other Detroiters to form Home Planners...
...Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, was "irritated" that anyone could have misunderstood its full-page MacArthur picture ad in various magazines and-newspapers as a political endorsement...
...Plumpish, diplomatic Ray R. Rausch, 49, most affable, best-liked of all top Ford men, now boss of the sprawling Rouge plant. Rausch came to Ford from Timken-Detroit Axle Co. in 1921, to run engineering, tool design and construction, later headed the important salvage department, was elevated to Rouge boss in 1933. A quick and practical improviser, Rausch often steps out of Rouge to solve problems in other parts of the empire. As a production man, he is second only to tall, handsome Charles E. Sorensen. When a shortage of fabricated steel threatened to halt Willow Run construction, Rausch...
Last week Timken-Detroit was making 300 pinions an hour on one machine. The gear teeth need no machining, come out of the dies cleanly accurate. The forging process produces tougher gears, will save about a million pounds of steel...