The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-26

resourceful". The history of the company since its organization, is briefly sketched, with particular praise from is rapid emergence from war to peacetime production after World War I.
 The Post article follows, in part:
 The Scovill company is in mil crocosm the exciting battle line of brains, drive and adaptability that is winning the production war. Yankee ingenuity had its first Towering in New England, but its seeds have sprouted Sturd- fly in every corner of the forty eight states.
 When that badgered citizen, the average man, slaves himself, turns out the light, listens to the radio, gets an antitetanuS shot, looks at the time or does any one of thousand and one ordinary everyday thing, he may be paying unconscious tribute to 8 sprawl ing giant of factory in Water bury, Conn. The Scovill Ma1lu- featuring Company makes and processes such a fabulous num- Der of metal products, it's almost impossible to turn around without using one. When you drop nickel into a subway turnstile, you may be handling a Scovill product, since Scovill makes millions of nickel blanks annually for the United States Mint. When you fasten dress with a metal fast ener or hive up dimes in a dime bank, the chances are you are using more Scovill products. They make such widely divergent items as Chinese money, divers hell mets, cosmetic containers, cleo tric-furnace parts, rivets for air. planes, parachute fasteners and safety pins. In the 1870's the com- pany began the manufacture of the Queen Anne lamp burner, the brass jigger that raises and lowers wick into tank of kerosene. Millions of these burn CTS have been sold all over the world, and are still selling. Oil for the lamps of China burned itself out through Scovill burners. Standard Oil bought shiploads of them, transported them to the Orient and sold them to Chinese to create market for petroleum products. During the depression the sales graph of Queen Anne burners bumped itself up like dromedary's back. as did the sale of overall buttons. Mountains of overall buttons and fasteners rolled out of Waterbury every day during 193O and '31 to secure the garments of people who found the overall durable and cheap cover ing during lean years.
 Tn all, Scovill makes more than 3OO,O0O different products. Yet few people outside of the trade have ever heard of the company. It is the contract manufacturer and custom tailor to the metal in- dustry. And it has got where it is without benefit of fanfare or hoopla. Such a business didn't Sprout overnight. It grew. It has 8 history beginning in 1902, dur ing the second year of Jeffereson's administration. It extended down through World War years, dur ing which Scovill made and de- livered to the Allies 2,0O0, ,00O0 900 brass cups for cartridge shells, 443, 900 900 bullet jackets, 21, ,000, 900 completely assembled time fuses for cbror1pe1 and 10 mn n00 75-mm. shell cases, to say nothing of half billion other pieces for varied armament needs. Right now, in 1942, the plant Is working tWenty-four hours a day turning out packaged hell with which to blast Hitler and Hirohito.
 The relativity of time Is more than theory in Waterbury, Conn. Today, yesterday and tomorrow are ineXtricably mixed. They are proud of the fact that Scovill has made things for the United States to use in all of its wars ex- cept the Revolution. The legends of its enterprises are legion. Right now. it is running up few current ones for future Scovill generations to cherish. Only last month the management took a story factory covering acres of ground and changed 1t over from making brass screws to turning out time fuses for shells.
 Angel Orfanidis, Q Greek resident