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...diamond acts very much like a Geiger counter, whose knocked-free electrons dart across a partial vacuum. But the Bureau's diamond counter will last longer, and it can be made much smaller than a Geiger counter. The little sensitive crystal can be tucked away in industrial equipment, or even inside the human body to measure the penetration of radiation, as in the X-ray treatment of cancer...
...penguin which continually dunks its beak into a glass of water. (The secret: a reaction between the water and chemicals inside the bird.) ¶ The Skweez-Me Boxers, a couple of gangling woodenheads who fight and flop in their little wooden ring through manipulation of the base. ¶ A dart game in which plastic bombs are dropped when trigger releases in model planes are hit. ¶ A wind-up car that turns corners, reverses, and parks itself...
STORY ON JUSTIN DART AND UNITED-REXALL [TIME, JULY1], WHILE EXCELLENT FACTUAL REPORT, CONTAINS ONE STATEMENT SUBJECT TO POSSIBLE MISINTERPRETATION: "NOW HE BURIES PRESCRIPTION COUNTERS IN THE BACK OF STORES LEST THEY TAKE UP VALUABLE SPACE FOR RAG DOLLS, BOOKS, ETC. . . ." FOR BOTH COMPANY-OWNED STORES AND THOUSAND INDEPENDENT REXALLITIES MR. DART HAS CONTINUALLY PRESCRIBED PRIMARY EMPHASIS FOR THE PRESCRIPTION COUNTER. IN SHORT, IT'S .THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR BUSINESS. IT IS TRUE THAT SAID COUNTERS ARE USUALLY LOCATED IN THE REAR OF THE STORE FOR TWO REASONS: PROTECTION FOR THE DRUGS, SECLUSION FOR THE PHARMACIST TO INSURE...
West with United. During United's period of consolidation, net earnings fell from $2,527,424 in 1941 to $1,970,971 in 1945. One big item was $580,000 spent last fall by President Dart to move United-Rexall's headquarters from Boston to Los Angeles. This move was part of the bargain he made with United: if he could move HQ west, he would stay at $75,000 a year, instead of taking the offered presidency of Montgomery Ward and Co. at $150,000. The trade gossiped that the move was dictated by Dart...
...fact, United is doing much better. Net earnings in the first quarter of 1946 were $1,029,883 (v. $502,448 for the same period of 1945). United plans to expand still more, diversifying as it goes. As Dart puts it: "We'll buy plants in any field where it would be cheaper to manufacture ourselves than to buy on the market...