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...oval wheels: they do not spin themselves into the mud, as round wheels do. They are "geared to the mud": the pointed ends dig into it while the flat sides, whose curvature is like that of a much larger round wheel, support the weight of the vehicle. Inventor Kopczynski says his experimental unit has about twice as much pulling power as if its wheels were round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flip-Flop | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...least twelve traction-machinery companies have shown interest in walk wheels, and a U.S. Army engineer has recommended them for further testing. Last week Inventor Kopczynski left for England to discuss his wheels with British manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flip-Flop | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

There is very little that one can really say about Woolley's performance. He knows the part well-obviously, since he is the inventor of it, he plays it beautifully and with perfect shading--he ought to, for he had played it long enough. without him to play Sheridan Whiteside, it would have been complete lunacy for the HDC to attempt a production of this play. No matter how many productions of this perennial favorite you may have seen, when Woolley emits his first line, you know that the right man is in the wheelchair...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

...Umbaugh experiment is being financed by Tom Slick, millionaire oilman, cattleman and inventor (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946), through his Foundation for Applied Science at the Essar (short for Scientific Research) Ranch. When the project was formally unveiled there last week, Foundation Director Dr. Harold Vagtborg optimistically gloated that it might be possible "to convert all cattle herds into registered stock of the finest quality in a single generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mother Was a Thoroughbred | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Whenever wealthy Meatpacker Henry Blackman Sell picks up a magazine, he has a great yen to rewrite the stories, rearrange the pictures. Henry Sell is the inventor of Sell's Liver Pate and a dozen other fancy canned meats, but he was once literary editor of the Chicago Daily News, editor of Harper's Bazaar, and editor-in-chief of a string of Butterick Publishing Co. magazines-and he never quite got over it. Now, says Sell, "every time I go through a magazine I'm like an old fire horse. When I hear the bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Product | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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