Word: gadget
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...weeks ago big Manhattan department stores like Gimbel's, Bloomingdale's and Wanamaker's began demonstrating a hammered metal gadget with a long handle called the "aluminum cow." While housewives gathered around the kitchenware counter, salesmen fiddled with its bolts, jiggled its handle, pumped out thick yellow whipping cream. By last week 250 housewives had paid $4.95 apiece for the machine at Gimbel's, and Bloomingdale's and Wanamaker's had sold...
They go out to the barn to inspect a sound-recording gadget he has invented while the pressagent-chaperon anxiously asks: "Is there any hay out there?" Carole comes back declaiming: "This is the greatest thing for pictures since the Warner Brothers stretched forth their hands and said, 'Let there be Sound.' " Deciding to stay all night, Carole appears for dinner in a blinding dress apparently made of tinfoil, determines to take the young man to Hollywood...
...brakes already required by the Association on new equipment. Binding on all members, the vote called for completion of the changeover within ten years. Westinghouse not only invented the air brake, but, before he was through, nearly perfected it. All improvements since have been merely refinements of that amazing gadget, the air brake triple valve. And most of the improvements have been in one direction-to make the brakes on the last car of a train work as soon as those on the first. On passenger trains, the brake action is practically simultaneous on every car. But on a long...
...some $2,000, will arrange a fire. But the middle-man can find few skillful firers. Bertha Warshovsky, Chicago's most expert firer, knows most of arson's middlemen. Some ten years ago she began to make money by fabricating and selling to arsonists a gadget consisting of a short candle tightly bound with kitchen matches. Price: $5 to $10. Later when she found that women were less suspect in arson cases than men, she began to use her own gadget. Her price was anything up to $250 per fire...
...publicity, naprapaths proceeded to the Century of Progress for Sally Rand, fan dancer. Giving her no time to doff her flat white hat, Naprapath Smith had her shrug off the top of her dress. He found she wore no slip, no brassiere. In search for "ligatights" he applied a gadget called a "multitherm" to her back, found none...