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...after all. Early in the week 15,000 of them were evacuated when 15 cars of a 44-car transport train derailed, causing a tanker filled with phosphorus to explode and spew a plume of noxious white smoke over the small city (pop. 18,000) ten miles southwest of Dayton. Local hospitals treated some 300 people for respiratory problems and eye irritations...
...first President to fly (19 months out of office), strapped himself into a spruce-and-wire rig down in St. Louis in 1910 and chugged over a field at 50 ft., waving his fedora. You could pick up a couple of those planes from Orville and Wilbur Wright in Dayton for about $10,000. The price of the 747s, which ultimately will come close to $300 < million including crew training, support units and spare parts, is gargantuan even when compared with the famous Boeing 707s introduced by Ike and raised to sad splendor by Kennedy and Nixon. A pair cost...
...first commercial radar detector was invented in 1968 by, fittingly enough, a disgruntled motorist who felt that he had been unfairly nabbed for speeding. Dale Smith, a Dayton-area electronics whiz, dubbed his creation Fuzzbuster I. The theory behind the device is simple. Police radar sets bounce a microwave beam off an approaching car or truck in order to measure the speed at which the vehicle is moving. The target must be in a direct line of sight with the radar transmitter before an accurate reading can be taken. The radar emissions, however, can be detected by a simple electronic...
...corporate battle against drugs is a bonanza for dozens of small companies that provide the weapons. Private laboratories that perform drug tests, for example, are growing rapidly. So are security firms that supply undercover agents. Professional Law Enforcement, a five-year-old Dayton firm, has doubled its business in the past year. Says President William Taylor III: "Companies are starting to recognize that they have to attack the problem in a different way. You can't send a standard security guard or a management person out there to handle a person dealing in drugs...
Another bright sign for the economy is that consumer confidence and retail sales remain robust. Several department store chains last week reported hefty profit gains during the first three months of the year. Earnings were up 17% at Allied Stores, 18% at Dayton Hudson and 21% at Federated. Auto sales in mid-May rose 18.2% over the same period a year...