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...last spring he privately disbursed $500 in small gifts to needy folks back home. He takes pestering by newshawks good-naturedly, avoids conferences with men of finance and industry, of which he knows or cares to know nothing, but will talk for hours to any farmer or farm inventor...
...management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady of charitarian views, Mary (now Marilyn) met the man of her dreams, who turned out to be an inventor of genius, a gentleman born, and a landed proprietor. All the signs were right; Mary let culture go, fell into his arms, spoke naturally for the first time in her life: "I am glad that we have met. You have given me a great big new outlook on life...
Nucleus of the idea is a death ray ? a concentrated beam of sub-microscopic particles flying at velocities approaching that of light. The beam, according to Tesla, would drop an army in its tracks, bring down squadrons of airplanes 250 miles away. Inventor Tesla would discharge the ray by means of: 1) a device to nullify the impeding effect of the atmosphere on the particles; 2) a method for setting up a high potential; 3) a process for amplifying that potential to 50,000,000 volts; 4) creation of "a tremendous electrical repelling force." Two of these are complete...
...demonstrated. When one Harry Grinnell-Matthews loudly announced a death ray some years ago in England, Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins said he would stand 65 ft. from the apparatus and invite Mr. Grinnell-Matthews to turn on his radiations full blast. Last month in Omaha the Inventors' Congress was informed by its President Albert G. Burns that he had witnessed a death ray demonstration staged by a Clevelander named Antonio Longoria. Rabbits, dogs and cats, said President Burns, were killed instantly, their blood turned to water. But Inventor Longoria said he would withhold his secret until invasion...
...Graham. Onetime official of General Electric Co.. now president of Chicago's Speedway Manufacturing Co.. Chairman Knowlson went on Stewart-Warner's board of directors after the com pany was forced to clean house by the accusations of its fourth largest stockholder and most famed inventor, Oscar Ulysses Zerk (TIME, March...