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...What a sales portfolio would I and thousands of Studebaker salesmen have in a TIME carrying in one issue the ads of all companies that cooperate with Studebaker in making CHAMPION the great Champion it is. For instance, Firestone Champion tires, Champion plugs, Lockheed brakes, Willard batteries, Timken bearings, Perfect Circle rings, Carter carburetors, and other items...
While inspecting his company laboratory, Board Chairman Herbert Watson Alden of Timken-Detroit Axle Co. fell to monkeying with the apparatus, became entangled, suffered severe lacerations of the head...
Assembled v. Manufactured. A common characteristic of the majority of truckmakers is that their product is assembled. Motors may be bought from Hercules Motors, Lycoming Manufacturing, Continental Motors or Waukesha, wheels from Budd, axles from Timken, brakes from Bendix. Diamond-T is the fastest selling assembled truck. Stewart and Federal are both assembled. "Assembled" is a fighting word in the truck in- dustry because companies that machine most of their own parts look down their noses at the assemblers, terming their own product "manufactured." This incenses the "assembled" truckmen, for the reason that all motor vehicles-trucks, buses and passenger...
...many years. Dr. August L. Mayer, Goya authority, had never heard of it but, instantly recognizing it as a Goya of about 1787. asked permission to include it in all future editions of his book, Francisco de Goya. Within a month it was sold to Mrs. William R. Timken, sister-in-law of Henry Holiday Timken, maker of Timken Roller Bearings (TIME, Aug. 19). Well known only to dealers is Mrs. Timken's collection which includes a Boucher, a Fragonard, a Gainsborough and a brace each of Greuzes. Rembrandts and Van Dycks. The lady with the parrot is Mrs. Timken...
Septuagenarian Henry Holiday Timken, Canton's No. 1 citizen, lives in baronial splendor in his Canton home, is sometimes called "The Millionaire Nobody Knows." Around his estate is a high iron fence guarded by watchmen who question all who attempt to enter. Deaf, Mr. Timken expresses himself in curious ways. On his office floor is a fine thick carpet. It is said that when something displeases him, he stalks the floor scattering live cigaret butts. No one is allowed to pick them up, for later Mr. Timken likes to look across a carpet pock-marked with burned spots, evidence...