Mr. Ruby. When you say time, actually I took care of it more or less out of my home.
Mr. Griffin. Did you have any other businesses last year besides the camera company and the drycleaning business?
Mr. Ruby. Well, I had the nameplate business. That all comes under Earl Ruby Co., both of those.
Mr. Griffin. How much of your time did the nameplate business take?
Mr. Ruby. Very little. I don’t think I did a thousand dollars in the last 2 years on that, so you can imagine how much time that took up. And then that is dead now. In fact, the orders were so small that instead of manufacturing the plates myself, for which I have the tools and dies, I had somebody else do it for me that makes a similar item.
Mr. Griffin. What kind of nameplates are they?
Mr. Ruby. A little plate 3 inches by 6 inches made out of metal. It is very similar to the design of your license plate, but we would put the children’s name on it, like John Jones, and they would fasten it to the back of their bicycle or their wagon or what have you. This was a box top deal item that we used, Armour’s Meats used it several years ago. They send in a box top from Armour’s franks with 25 cents, and you get the plate, things like that.
Mr. Griffin. You say you held the dies on it?
Mr. Ruby. I own them.
Mr. Griffin. You own the dies, but you were going to have somebody else manufacture them?