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...Stewart-Warner Corp. has developed a gasoline-burner the size of a waste basket, capable of generating enough heat for a 20-room house. Based on the hot-air heater now used in planes, the unit can be hung from attic rafters, with a blower to distribute the hot air by means of ducts in the walls and registers in each room. Stewart-Warner has not announced the cost of such a central heater but estimates that a one-room unit will cost $20 to $30. It also estimates that fuel costs will be no higher than those...
...cable through 500 feet of winding, 24-inch drainpipe, they tied a piece of string to the cable, then tied the string to a cat's tail (see cut), then dispatched the cat through the pipe, "energizing" the animal from behind with a powerful compressed-air blower...
...however, a two-stage, two-speed supercharger has been developed and thoroughly tested. This is an elaboration which in effect gives the pilot a high gear for his supercharger when his airplane has climbed beyond the best limits of his low-speed blower. Allison motors with this supercharger now are being manufactured and flown, and will shortly be in quantity production. They will vastly improve the performance of Allison-powered aircraft. Today the Allison engine is already a vastly better engine than many of its critics have made it out; few, if any, other liquid-cooled power plants...
...putting into operation Knowlson's program governing the flow of materials was handed to handsome, athletic, 42-year-old Amory Houghton III, board chairman of Corning Glass Works. Houghton, of the fourth generation of glassmaking Houghtons, joined the firm as a glass blower on his graduation from Harvard in 1921. He rose quickly...
...skilled barrel reamer and glass blower was digging ditches...