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This remarkable young man turned up in the East in 1922 on the brake rods of a transcontinental freight train. Son of a poverty-plagued Presbyterian minister, he odd-jobbed his way through Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., washing his own clothes, living at times in a tent. Burning for a big university degree, he arrived at Columbia Law School with 6? in his pocket. Before he graduated high in his Class of 1925 he had written a legal text book for a correspondence course. In his last year he taught three courses on the side...
Spray pumps also developed into pumps for washing food. From food-washers came automobile washers, and from automobile washers a line of motorcar equipment including brake-testers and wheel-aligners. Thus many a Food Machinery product sprang from the spray pump, which Food Machinery still sells...
...Blast & Brake...
Being one who detests needless horn-blowing, I still maintain there are times when the blast is quite as necessary as the brake...
...accelerator, the cam of a motor selector switch was set revolving, turning the green light to amber in two seconds. Thereafter, at an unpredictable interval, the amber light turned red. As soon as he saw the red light the subject removed his foot from the accelerator, applied the brake. The time interval was electrically measured. The average reaction time was .43 sec. The fastest was .26 sec. The slowest was .90 sec. It was found that tall persons generally react a little more slowly than short people, no doubt because motor nerve impulses travel through the body at about...