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...third-quarter net of $3.1 million (v. $5.3 million last year) on lower sales. Standard Brands showed a profit of only $787,519, a drop of 49%. With sales slipping, five out of eleven makers of electric appliances reported declines ranging from 2% (for Noma Electric) to 43% (for Bendix Home Appliances). Truckmakers Diamond T and Autocar slipped badly and Reo Motors drove into...
Gold Coasters may soon be able to shrink their own socks all by themselves. If enough names are received on a current Adams House petition, the House committee will give serious consideration to providing a Bendix for the basement...
Last week TV was busy traveling by rail, highway and air. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, on a run from Washington to Jersey City, took along an observation carload of reporters to witness the first use of a TV set on a train. The receiver was specially built by Bendix engineers to eliminate such bugs as landscape blocks, high speed (the train hit 80 m.p.h.), and static caused by passing trains. Biggest problem was the antenna. Because of the low clearances allowed by trestles, tunnels and overpasses, the antenna could rise only 15¾ inches above...
...Remington Arms Co., Inc., Ethyl Corp., Kinetic Chemicals Inc., North American Aviation Inc. and Bendix Aviation Corp. More than a year ago the antitrusters had also prepared, but never filed, a suit against Du Pont to ask that it get rid of its 23% control of General Motors. The new investigation, which also seemed likely to last well past November, included two companies (North American and Bendix) in which G.M. had publicly sold its holdings earlier this year...
Race Street (RKO Radio) presents George Raft as a Los Angeles gambler, William Bendix as a detective friend, and Henry Morgan as a crippled friend. The cripple gets brutally killed by "protection" racketeers. Detective Bendix, true to his trade, wants to hunt down the killers in lawful and orderly fashion. Gambler Raft, like all shady characters, is faithful to a code which scorns help from a copper. They argue this difference of technique, in a friendly way, until Raft's enemies, seeing them together, conclude that Raft is playing stool pigeon. That puts him in real trouble. There...