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...into the mammoth business, utilizing Czechoslovakia's especially rich deposits. Before the Institute scientists can fill an order, they must dig up their mammoth, clean the bones thoroughly, wash them in a solution of chloric acid and water. When the bones are dry, they must treat them with glue, coat them with shellac. The price of a complete mammoth is $30,000 f. o. b. Czechoslovakia...
...Glue Retrenchment. Better to concentrate on the glue business, American Glue Co. last week announced plans to sell its gelatin plants and business to a subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Co. for $2,300,000. Previously, Eastman was one of American Glue's biggest gelatin customers. This follows closely on American Glue's sale of its abrasive business to Minneapolis Mining & Manufacturing Co. and Carborundum...
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...audiences with the fact that Mormonism is a successful religion if ever there was one. Accompanying the pageant would be music from one of Mormondom's most cherished treasures- its mighty organ. In 1866 oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos. Glue was made by boiling strips of cattle and buffalo hides. Recently reconstructed, the instrument, with 5,500 pipes, is among the world's largest, draws comparisons with those in Frieburg, London's Crystal Palace, Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral. Designed on a monumental, historic scale...
...affiliated with J. P. Morgan & Co., Guggenheim Bros. is in its second generation. No. i Guggenheim was Meyer, born in Switzerland in 1828, emigrating to the U. S. 19 years later. In Philadelphia, No. i Guggenheim vended various things, but first began making large profits through shoe-polish and glue. In 1872 he entered the embroidery business, taking into the firm his four eldest (of seven) sons: Daniel, Murry, Solomon, and Simon...