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Bendix Home Appliances Inc., which revolutionized the washing-machine industry eleven years ago with its automatic home washer, was all ready last week to do it again. As a starter, it cut prices 7%, the first postwar reductions by a major producer in the automatic-washer field. Then it announced that it had bought Cleveland's H. J. Rand Washing Machine Corp., along with the rights to a "radically different" machine, which it hopes to put on the market next fall. With price cuts and new machine, Bendix hopes to fend off the score of new washers which have...
Biggest difference between the present automatic washer and the new machine is the drying system. The tank of the Rand washer is lined with rubber. To dry clothes, the water and air are sucked out by a motor-driven pump, creating a vacuum which 1) causes the rubber to collapse, squeezing the clothing dry, and 2) lowers the boiling point of the water that remains until it turns into steam and passes...
...plastic shoe sole. As an Army major, he worked on guided missiles during World War II. At war's end, he set up the H. J. Rand Co. (the initials were reversed to avoid confusion with his father) with a capitalization of $80,000, to develop his washer...
...Snapper Arthur ("Too Fat") Godfrey, CBS's earlybird disc jockey, spotted an unexplained washing machine in his studio one morning last week, casually gave it away to a woman in the studio audience. CBS's Winner Take All, which had been storing the washer in the studio, promptly cried thief. Grumped Godfrey: "That'll teach 'em to keep their junk off my show...
...tall, mild-looking president of giant Corn Products Refining Co. Like many another top NAMster, Sayre started his career at the bottom. After graduating from the University of Richmond and Lehigh University, Sayre went to work for Corn Products in 1908 as a $75-a-month boiler washer. He climbed the ladder rung by rung and never lost his modesty on the way. He likes to keep his door open to any one of his 5,000 employees who has a complaint or an idea...