Word: gadget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family circle. President Edward makes monthly trips to New York. The walls of his office are covered with family portraits and photostats of certified checks (largest, $1,300,000 from New York Auction Co. in 1929). On the dashboard of his Lincoln is a radio remote-control gadget which opens & closes his garage door and turns the lights in the garage on & off. None of the brothers smoke or drink. Each takes only $5,000 a year out of the business as salary...
...farmers. His best known invention-the self-starter for motorcars -was developed for Henry M. Leland, onetime head of Cadillac. General Motors got Mr. Kettering when they got Delco and Mr. Kettering is now head of General Motors Research Division. One of his inventions is a gadget for opening bedroom windows without getting...
Yale turned up with a new gadget yesterday at the Junior Varsity game in the form of a portable shower. Managers would drag the machine onto the field during time outs, pump furiously, and refresh weary players with gentle rain...
...that GE was puttering with both under license. Good cheer returned, however, when the visitors came upon a garbage-grinder which may revolutionize "kitchen waste" disposal by chopping it fine, flushing it down the sink drain (TIME, Sept. 9). With crows of delight the tycoons stopped, played with this gadget...
...extensive campaign to improve U. S. housing, and incidentally sell more electric equipment, General Electric Co. extensively backed prefabricated houses known as American Motohomes, produced by American Houses, Inc. (TIME, April 1). They were well planned, built of asbestos and cement panels, were portable and equipped with every modern gadget, including airconditioning. And they have sold well. But the trouble was that after nearly a year General Electric discovered that Motohomes did not solve the problem they were after. Designed for mass production, they are not being mass produced, are too expensive for the man earning between...