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...Boss. Howard Fuller, able salesman and yachtsman (his cutter Gesture won the Bermuda race two years ago), became president in 1943, when Arthur Fuller upped himself to chairman. The new president took over a business which had cut its normal civilian output drastically to make brushes for the cleaning of guns. To meet the demand he made the company tops in the field of brush-making machinery, developed new brushes for industrial uses. He also began to use girls to reinforce his war-depleted sales staff. The experiment was only partly successful; lugging a sample case with 36 different brushes...
...colored movie process called Rouxcolor. Though hardly as colossal as the excitable French puffs made out, the first Rouxcolor films made moviemen sit up & take notice. To many they seemed sharper and more nearly faithful to natural color values than Technicolor itself. Furthermore, Rouxcolor is an impressive cost-cutter: it can be made with an ordinary black& -white camera equipped with a special lens-at about the same cost as black-&-white film...
...last January the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif, made a routine shipment to their warehouse in Jacksonville, Fla. of 391 cases of 5% glucose in normal salt solution. All 2,346 bottles bore the laboratory code number CM-8164. Three months later a worried doctor in Hazard, Ky. telegraphed the American Medical Association headquarters in Chicago ; he had noticed alarming reactions in two patients who had been given injections from bottles labeled...
...impurity get into the glucose? Best guess of the Cutter Laboratories: the bottles were jarred in shipment and their rubber stoppers loosened. When the vacuum was broken, air rushed in and bacteria formed a poisonous mold that grew readily in the glucose. Laboratory technicians pointed out that all boxes of glucose they ship contain this warning to doctors: make sure that the vacuum has not been broken, and beware of cloudiness, a sign of contamination...
Fantastic was Hollywood's word for it. A 34-year-old ex-film cutter and a 37-year-old ex-pressagent, with a total capital of $25,000, brashly announced last year that they were going to make a million-dollar A movie...