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...most U. S. cinemaddicts the Thompson submachine gun is a gangsters' weapon. The late black-browed John Dillinger, potbellied "Killer" Burke, the late Charlie Birger of Southern Illinois were virtuosos with the Thompson, called it, with utility in mind, a chopper. But gangsters got their choppers by stealing them from policemen who had found them wonderfully effective for erasing hoodlums from the public slate. For the Thompson, only a few ounces heavier than a Springfield rifle, is an amazingly potent weapon...
Today Thompsons can be made for $50 to $60 each, sold at $200 to $225. Well-grounded in military tactics, well-acquainted with soldiering men, rumpled, Kentucky-born Colonel Marcellus Thompson sees the day near when there will be a Thompson in every infantry squad, a chopper or two in every armored car. Pacifists still object to war, but few of them still object to arming against it. Old General Thompson, living among his memories in the modest home of his son at Great Neck, L. I., will have some advice to give as an unofficial technical consultant...
...until last year was the mechanical cotton chopper good enough for commercial success. Today, it comes in two sizes, a one-row machine which can chop twelve acres a day, a two-row machine which will chop 25 when pulled by a team, four acres an hour when pulled by a tractor...
...Ellis Albaugh shares not in this profit. He sold out for $600 cash. The promoters who bought it sold stock in the Dixie Cotton Chopper Co., then absconded with the money. One of the salesmen of this first company was a Kentuckian named Lawrence W. Leeper whose wife had an independent fortune. In 1927 Lawrence Leeper bought the rights to the chopper, patented it in 1932. Engineer Dent Parrett improved the machine and wealthy oldtime Rancher John Scharbauer and friends put up $200.000 to establish Dixie Cultivator Corp. in 1936. Lawrence Leeper retained a controlling interest and has given...
Last week was National Cherry Week (as it is annually because of Cherry-Chopper George Washington's birthday). It was also whole or part of "National Defense Week," "National Orange Week," "Better American Speech Week," "National Horace Heidt Record Week."* Last week, too, the biggest U. S. industry revealed that it would for the first time appropriate a week for its special pleading: in Manhattan President Alvan Macauley of the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that all U. S. motorcar makers would join in spending $1,250,000 to make March 5-12 "National Used Car Exchange Week...