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...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...
Manufacturer H. H. ("Roller Bearings") Timken, Owner James M. Cox of the Canton Daily News (who lives in Dayton), the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate, and others, subscribed thousands at once to apprehend the murderers. The U. S. district attorney set about collecting relevant material from statements made to him last March when Mellett testified in a Canton narcotics case-statements by Mellett that he had been threatened specifically by the Canton police and "vice lords" for "inter-fering." The public learned more about one "Harry-the-Greek" Bouklias and one Harry Turner, convicted perjurers and underworld go-betweens, whose release...