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Periodicals; Chemical industry; Plastics industry; Agriculture; Firearms;
Table of Contents: The payoff; Cool profits for manufacturers; United Nations, N.Y.; Neoprene takes the floor; Silos to smokestacks; White sheep, white sheep; Squeezing out waste; Getting the brush off; They raise more roses; Investment in safety;...
Letter from the Remington & Sherman Company, bank vault manufacturers, to Bernard T. Converse in regards to the short supply of steel due to wartime shortages.
Letter from John T. Baily and Company, manufacturers of yacht flags, signals, ensigns and other general athletic goods, to William du Pont advertising their goods for du Pont's yachting needs and offers a special discount to members of the...
Honest to goodness, this is really the largest commercial building in America. Merchandise Mart has four million square feet of floor space. Tower section alone is as large as most office buildings. If built up like most of the recent setback...
A preview via television of the National Automobile Show was held at Rockefeller Plaza, Nov. 10th, when 1,939 cars passed before the iconoscope television camera and were viewed through the receiving set on the 54th floor of the NBC building by...
A preview via television of the National Automobile Show was held at Rockefeller Plaza, Nov. 10th, when 1,939 cars passed before the iconoscope television camera and were viewed through the receiving set on the 54th floor of the NBC building by...
Delivers message with its goods. This gaily painted truck delivers insecticides and weed killers in Chicago's Loop twice a day. To create more business for itself, it tells Chicagoans and nearby residents just what it is carrying. The starboard...
Delivers message with its goods. This gaily painted truck delivers insecticides and weed killers in Chicago's Loop twice a day. To create more business for itself, it tells Chicagoans and nearby residents just what it is carrying. The starboard...
The First Automobile Show-People weren't even sure that the horseless carriage was "here to stay" when the first automobile show was held at the Old Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1900. Manufacturers of that period had different ideas as to...
In the early days of the horseless carriage dealerships such as this one in western PA (circa 1904-05) carried automobiles made by several manufacturers. This dealership gave the Ford name big play on its building and put a Model A right in the...