Word: gadgetized
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...Schick. It was he who first applied the principle of the repeating rifle to the design of safety razors, inventing in 1921 the Schick magazine razor with a plunger for discarding and inserting blades. Eight years later he perfected the power-driven shave. The Schick Dry Shaver, an electric gadget selling for $15 which mows down whiskers without cream or lather, has found its way into 500,000 U. S. homes. Fortnight ago Colonel Schick came unbloodied through the first round of the year's biggest razor battle when the U. S. District Court in Brooklyn held that...
This year Farmer Hughes, in return for being on constant exhibition, will get the use of all these electrical devices free. Next year, if he chooses, he can buy them at reduced prices, operate them for $18 a month. Every gadget had last week been thoroughly mastered except an electric razor. Farmer Hughes's 31-year-old son claimed he had cut himself while using...
...gadget in a railroad official's office car which is most likely to get out of order is the speedometer, whose clock face is usually perched just above and in front of the official as he sits in his accustomed chair before the starboard rear observation window. Nevertheless, last week the Boston & Maine joined the current race to lure passengers with gimcracks when it installed a speedometer in the solarium of its crack, streamlined Flying Yankee. Developed by Waltham Watch Co., the instrument is actuated by a small electric generator connected to the car wheels. If it works without...
Feature of the épée contests was not the victory of Lieut. Gustave M. Heiss, U. S. A., who held the title in 1933 and 1934, but the first use in the national tournament of an intricate electric gadget, perfected by Fencer Alessandroni, which automatically records every touch. At the tip of each epee is a special plunger which, when it touches an opponent's body, is depressed, thereby closing an electric circuit. A double wire runs down the sword, up the performer's sleeve, down to his belt and along the strip to a reel...
...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...