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Stoic. In Trenton, N.J., Street Cleaner Edward Ware, hard at work, found an envelope stuffed with $4,945 in endorsed checks and negotiable securities, stuck it in his pocket, kept on with his work, shortly encountered police, threw them the envelope, went on sweeping...
...four column-inches per page. He cut comic strip widths, reduced the size of standing headlines over regular features, eliminated white space around classified ad items, made other space-saving reductions. As a result, the Journal now prints in 28 to 30 pages what once filled 32, and is cleaner, smarter appearing. Best thing about the Journal job, Farrar says: it was accomplished invisibly. Readers were not irritated by a drastic difference...
Called the Precipitron, this electrostatic air cleaner developed by Westinghouse now stands silent guard in the plants where binoculars, range finders and periscopes are made, in arsenals where ammunition is loaded. It keeps unsullied the polished surfaces of precision gauges, whisks away the stench of welding. Newest use, revealed last week by Westinghouse, is purifying the air for the blast furnaces at a new steel plant, where fumes and grit could quickly erode the high-speed blades of the blowers...
...Precipitron came out of "a successful failure" in research, and a hopeful house-cleaning experiment in Pittsburgh. Some six years ago a young research engineer, Gaylord W. Penney (now manager of the electrophysics laboratories), sought a conclusion to German experiments with ionized air, found a clue to cleaner air. With a wire, a couple of aluminum plates and a burning oily rag, he rigged his first crude electrostatic dirt trap. The modern unit is as simple in principle: air entering it travels over fine tungsten wires carrying 12,000 volts which impart a positive charge to passing particles of dust...
...name is Herman Hastings Garner, president of the Vortox Manufacturing Co., inventor and by far the largest builder of a complex carburetor air cleaner, without the like of which tanks would bog down in the desert, their engine cylinders irreparably scored by sand and dust...