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...people present who did not care which car won was President Andrew J. White of Boston's Gale Hall Engineering Inc. He alternated driving both cars because the competition was also a test of Gale Hall's dashboard "Mile-o-Meter." The meter shows the driver the rate at which he is using gas, thus warns him when he is driving uneconomically (e.g., stopping & starting too fast) or his engine is wasting gas. The meter has a rubber tube to the intake manifold; the manifold pressure controls a needle on the dashboard dial, which shows the rate...
...eleven months, Gale Hall has sold 846,000 meters. Price: $7.50 (a chromium model sells for $12.95). With the American Automobile Association's stamp of approval as a result of the test, President White hoped to double his sales...
Died. Sigmund Gale, 77, who in 1926 founded (with his son Moe) Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, "Home of Happy Feet" to thousands of Harlemites; of a heart attack; in Harlem. At the Savoy, dance-floor innovators worked up the Lindy hop, trucking, the Susie-Q; there, as unknowns, Ella Fitzgerald, Erskine Hawkins, the late "hick Webb found a place to show their talents...
...assumed a wild new relationship. The propeller of the right inboard engine burst from its hub, tore through the upper fuselage with a thunderous bang. The lights went out. The passengers, half deafened as the air rushed from the cabin, were assailed by a sub-zero gale which flung back hot oil and clattering chunks of metal. The wounded, overspeeded engine howled and shook off its mount. The right wing dipped suddenly...
Died. Brock Pemberton, 64, Broadway producer who put on the early plays of Zona Gale (Miss Lulu Bett), Sidney Howard (Swords), Maxwell Anderson (White Desert) and Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Kansas-born onetime reporter for William Allen White's Emporia Gazette (1908-10), Pemberton first introduced to theatergoers such stars as Walter Huston, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. His biggest success came late in life (1944), when he produced Broadway's fifth longest run, Harvey...