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Meanwhile, closer to home, some undergraduate canoeists on the upper Charles River happened on an incipient forest fire blazing in the finder-dry underbrush. Aided by a couple of local urchins, they worked fast and succeeded in beating out the flames before they spread beyond a few hundred square feet of grassy woods...
Besides piling up time as members of the club, men are reminded of the opportunity to pilot planes in the Fall meet, to be held near the end of October. Arrangements are also being made by older members to serve as realistic targets for the range-finder and signal drills of the College Naval Science unit. These realistic maneuvers will take place this week, weather permitting...
...Mill describes the two years Masefield spent in Yonkers, N.Y., in the late '90s, working for the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills. He worked first at straightening the metal tubes which held the yarns. Later, as "mistake finder," he learned the 30 processes which went into carpetmaking, and all the 1,500 colors, by tint and number. Masefield gives a real sense of the beautifully counterpointed complexities of mill work: "No man can be unmoved by the great concerted energy of many men and women." More than the work, he liked the food, the money and the leisure it gave...
Today. Bill Lear is founder, president and principal owner (51%) of Lear Avia, Inc., which makes radios, instruments and control accessories for airplanes. Best known is his Learmatic Navigator, a combined automatic radio direction finder and directional gyro, for which he got the Frank Hawks Memorial Award last December. Better seller is a cheaper, non-automatic direction finder for use in private planes. In 1939, Lear Avia lost $15,000 on a $222,000 volume. Said Lear then: "I'd give my life for $55,000." Just out of a Miami hospital (result of a crackup...
...fined ?1,250 under the Limitations of Supplies Order, for exceeding its sales quota of perfume, hosiery, fancy goods. >The London, the Associated and the Provincial Brokers' Stock Exchanges took voluntary action to reduce overhead. The kickback which banks and clerks had been getting from brokers as a finder's fee for new customers was cut from 50 to 33⅔% the broker's commission. In the case of other finders or "attaches" it was cut to 25%. The Exchanges also ruled that all "attaches" must have a City office under Exchange control. This meant that many...