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...scientists, who has been known to have some queer ideas himself-horse-faced, talkative Charles Kettering, General Manager of Research Laboratories of General Motors Corp., inventor of the self-starter, electric cash register, etc. Around the table were nine others: Chrysler's crack Engineer Fred M. Zeder, Du Font's Research Director Fin Sparre, General Electric's Research Laboratory Director William David Coolidge, Dean Frederick M. Feiker of George Washington University School of Engineering, Manhattan Patent Lawyer (and Theatre Guild director) Lawrence Langner, Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s Vice President Thomas Midgley, Director Watson Davis of Science...
...Only synthetic rubber now in sizable production is Du Font's neoprene. Better methods and wider sales have knocked the price down from $1.05 to 65? a pound. Firestone, already making neoprene aircraft tires, is expected to announce auto tires of the same material...
Parachutes. Promising to end U. S. dependence on silk (and Japan) for chutes, Buffalo's Irving Air Chute Co. last week delivered an experimental order of chutes made from Du Font's synthetic nylon...
...Westinghouse's robot has an electrified dog to keep him company, its Microvivarium (kills germs with sterilizing rays) has been renamed Micro-blitzkrieg. Brand-new: Henry Ford's A Thousand Times Neigh, wherein a synthetic horse comes back to report on the evolution of the automobile; Du Font's Nylon factory...
This week the U. S. Senate got religion. Kicking and struggling like a small boy on his way to get his ears scrubbed, the Senate was dragged up to the baptismal font, ducked and blessed by New Mexico's Carl Hatch...