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...businessmen gave their support to the New Deal earlier or more enthusiastically than Charles Edison, head of Thomas A. Edison, Industries: the fair-sized electrical apparatus business that the Edisons salvaged from the late great Thomas Alva's historic inventions. The Roosevelt Administration was not a month old when President Edison, whose politics were previously recorded as Republican, plastered the walls of the Edison plant in West Orange, N. J. with a message urging his 3,000 employes to "get going" behind President Roosevelt. "Buy something-buy anything-anywhere! Paint your kitchen. Send a telegram. Give a party...
...technique, but also on the ability to realize what makes a picture newsworthy. Work may be done with the cameras owned by the CRIMSON, but in some cases, particularly where candid work is involved, candidates familiar with their own cameras and miniature technique are urged to use their own apparatus...
...white majority in any election is safe, but the basis on which this is accomplished may not last forever. The House of Assembly of Bermuda last week put through a budget providing ample funds for the Government to propagandize Bermuda in favor of birth control, supply the necessary apparatus cheap to poor Negroes; further, to launch a determined fight on venereal disease by setting up free clinics. Only 20 of the 360 Bermuda Islands are inhabited. On a total area of 12,360 acres of which only 1,400 are under cultivation, live whites and blacks in a density...
...Exhibited at the National Hotel Exposition in Manhattan were an automatic device for detecting bogus money and bad checks, a pump apparatus for dealing with flooded bathrooms, a meat-softening substance called tendra which is extracted from a South Sea Island plant...
Most famed of all Goldbergiana are his lunatic inventions. These preposterous drawings were first inspired by memories of complicated scientific apparatus which Rube Goldberg, in his days as an engineering student at the University of California, was unable to take seriously. To demonstrate his mad machines, Goldberg invented Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. Examples...