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...feature was "Lady Houston's Cold Cure," for she, like America's Bernarr Macfadden, fancied herself as a health authority. A stern course of nostrums beloved by Britons (Gee's Cough Linctus, Langdale's Cinnamon, Byard's Oil), the cure was dedicated by its inventor to suffering mankind with this benediction: "If this remedy cures you, and I hope and believe it will, please report to me, and in payment let your fee be-just saying-God bless Lady Houston...
...Robert Hatfield, world-famous English metallurgist and inventor of manganese and silicon steels, betrayed unscientific traces of superstition while presenting a gift to President Conant...
...name at a theatre, a patron becomes eligible to win a substantial prize if he is present at the theatre on "Bank Night"- when the prize is awarded to the holder of a lucky ticket after a drawing on the theatre stage. Since Bank Nights started in 1931, Inventor Yaeger's enterprise has grown from a two-room office to a Denver building and a chain of theatres. Perpetually under fire from state and municipal authorities who hope to find some way in which to bring it under local lottery laws, Bank Night last week experienced the worst storm...
Announcers of this Davies act were Walker-Gordon Laboratories Co., Inc., purveyors of milk, at Plainsboro, N. J. The cream, it was announced, will be preserved by the quick-freezing Birdseye process (named for its inventor in 1925, Clarence Birdseye) which keeps food fresh for two years. Owner of the Birdseye process is General Foods Corp., of which Mrs. Davies, daughter of Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post, is a director and the largest single stockholder...
...long tour of Europe punctuated by frequent crashes, which proved the giro's safety because Pilot de la Cierva was never hurt. In 1928, when he flew the English Channel, he won recognition. From then on, England was autogiro headquarters. English capital financed the Cierva Autogiro Co. Inventor de la Cierva, Royalist son of King Alfonso's Minister of War, was glad to stay away from Spain after King Alfonso was dethroned. Except for an occasional spree with his four children, he devoted himself entirely to aviation, worked out two great improvements of his original autogiro design...