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...must read what he says because at last someone has something to say in addition to a machine to say it. His strong and careful outline of a fellow who "understands perfectly" the acquisition of "good seats in the orchestra right up with the best" is a gripper of which both he and The Advocate should be proud. And most of the Registration Issue seems good...
...excitable Rev. Thurston N. Davis, S.J. produce a U.S. family where the wife invites her husband to "make yourself comfortable, dear, in your slipper-gripper Mistletoes," or tells the children, "jump into your perma-sized skijamas, kids, while I make you some Dagwitches with diced cream and superfection strawberries?" Can he find a poor speller among those same children, who, doing his homework, writes "kar-pokits" or "kon-veen-yunt?" If so, the cross-pollenating Madison Avenue ad men would turn handsprings...
...Good Gripper. B. F. Goodrich Co. brought out a new tread design on its puncture-sealing, tubeless tire. The tread has more than 10,000 tiny blocks of rubber (16 to the inch), approximately a quarter of an inch deep. When the brakes are applied, the blocks flatten out, giving the tires more traction. On icy pavements, said Goodrich, the tires will stop a car 15 to 30% faster than conventional tires...
...service. Above her silvery-sleek spine flew an ugly, dark-snouted bomber converted into an air-going tanker. At some 500 feet the tanker's ejector flung out a grapnel. It hooked around the Caribou's line, skidded along to the tip, locked fast with a corresponding gripper. With the electric potentials of both planes equalized to prevent static sparks, the tanker's crew joined a pipe line to the grapnel, fed it back to the Caribou to be coupled with her gas tank valves. While the two planes soared out over Foynes at 120 m.p.h...
January failures were highest on record : 3.065 firms went under with liabilities of $266,172.000. Banks accounted for 290, tied-up deposits of $145,700,000. In receivership within the past month or with petitions pending were Ground Gripper Shoe Co., Long-Bell Lumber Corp. (TIME, Feb. 1 ), Western Steel Products, Ltd.. Ari zona Edison Co., Cuban Dominican Sugar Corp., Spreckels Sugar Corp. (TIME, Feb. 1), Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad Co., Multicolor, Ltd., Hamilton Gas Co., Hudson River Navigation Corp., Piedmont Utilities Co., American Equities Co., Texas-Louisiana Power...