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...same week the Post Office Department, noting "substantial" disagreement as to the battery-rejuvenation merits of AD-X2, withdrew a fraud order against it. Crowed Jess M. Ritchie, dauntless co-inventor and promoter of AD-X2: "We're ready to pour it into every battery in the country...
...battle is shaping up among farm implement makers. While Ford is preparing to jump in with a big new line of farm machinery (TIME, Aug. 10), British Inventor Harry Ferguson, once Henry Ford's "only partner," is merging with Canada's Massey-Harris. With five plants in the U.S., four in Canada, and others in England, Scotland, South Africa, France and Germany, the new company, Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd., will be the world's third largest farm implement maker, and plans to challenge International Harvester and Deere for first place...
...Princeton laboratory Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, R.C.A.'s great electronics inventor, who pioneered the TV tube, worried about this phenomenon. What U.S. driving needs, he concluded, is some masterful device to take it away from the drivers. After years of work, Dr. Zworykin announced last week that he had designed an electronic system to do just that...
...Inventor Willard Custer, 54, the test flight of his "channel-wing" aircraft † (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951) proved that it could take off in an incredibly short run. Eventually he hopes to show that it will take off at 15 m.p.h. inside 25 ft., hover motionless at a 23° angle and land within 25 ft. Custer, who has spent 20 years perfecting his plane, plans to sell a two-engine, five-passenger version...
...grandfather's same sharp-eyed way of looking about him and asking, "What's the good of this?" While his family is Protestant (Episcopal), Henry became a Roman Catholic before his marriage in 1940 to the former Anne McDonnell, granddaughter of famed Inventor Thomas E. Murray, once an associate of Thomas E. Edison...