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Buyers seemed unconcerned that prices were about 20% above previous models, the new machines often gave many times 20% more production. For example a ten-ton machine built by Lapointe Ma-:hine Tool Co. of Hudson, Mass, can turn out Ford connecting rods at a 1,200-an-hour clip, more than twice the speed of earlier machines. An automatic screwdriver made by Pneuma-Serve, Inc., Cleveland, which shoots screws into position and then drives them home, stepped up production 800% in one operation at the New York Progressive Wood Heel Co. of Brooklyn...
...Deputy Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich presented Benson with a couple of souvenir lacquered boxes, one of them showing a family of bears gamboling happily in a forest. Benson asked how to say "thank you" in Russian, said "spasibo," and handed Matskevich a 4-H Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book entitled Plant Diseases. Benson entertained the Russians with a lunch of new foods developed by U.S. scientists (including powdered orange juice and dehydro-frozen peas) and delivered a warm little speech: "Permit me to commend you for the friendliness and good will...
Next, Wouk went to work (at $15 a week) for a cigar-chomping "czar of gagwriters" who ran a joke factory supplying gags to Fanny Brice, Lou Holtz, Eddie Cantor et al. Wouk's job was to clip and card-index old jokes and to clean up the off-color items. Two years later he was hired as a radio gagwriter by Fred Allen. His special chore for the Allen-program: the "People You Didn't Expect to Meet" interview, for which he unearthed weirdies, e.g., a goldfish doctor, a worm salesman and "the man who inserts...
...stop the tough ones), he throws with remarkable lack of grace (yet he manages to get the ball across the infield on time), and at the plate he looks as if he could not hit at all (but he is currently slapping the ball at a surprising .300 clip). Like the Cardinals' ex-Manager Eddie Stanky, what Billy knows best is how to win ball games...
...common stock shares (at $5 a share). It also took an option to buy half the 400,000 shares (26% of outstanding stock) held by the late Joseph Knapp's Publication Corp. and voted by Crowell-Collier Chairman Clarence Stouch. The new group wanted to clip Stouch's power, make Smith...