From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, January 11, 1915: Prosperity is returning in great bunches to the Climax Machinery Co, 165 E. Morris St, which has reopened after having been closed for the past three months. “The war shut our doors,” said Ernest K. Hood the company’s secretary-treasurer, “but the war did us good in the end, for it showed us we could make stuff we got from Germany.” The Climax Co employs 100 men in the manufacture of all sorts of slicing machinery used by butchers. The product goes all over the world. When the war cut off the supply of knives from Germany, the company was helpless. However, it soon learned that it could make its own knives just like other American companies have learned they can make stuff which had previously been imported from Europe.