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Married. Oscar Ulysses Zerk, 65, millionaire inventor of the Zerk-Alemite lubricating system; and Adele Zerk, 20, a filing-clerk; in Kenosha, Wis. In the Caldwell, NJ. Curtiss-Wright plant, a letter signed by Mr. Zerk attracted Miss Zerk, who wrote to inquire about the similarity in names. After two months of correspondence, Mr. Zerk phoned Miss Zerk, proposed, journeyed to Caldwell, took her home to his Kenosha estate...
...Jews and laud Hitler on Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of America v. Joseph E. McWilliams, et al"). Quiet, swart Lawrence Dennis, U.S. fascism's No. 1 intellectual, sat glumly near benign-faced James True, organizer of America First, Inc., and inventor of the "kike-killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling, leader of the "Mothers' Crusade" which once sprawled noisily in the halls of the Senate office building, wore a big, rose...
Departing from custom, A.N.P.A. set aside one session in which experts will discuss FM (frequency modulation) broadcasting. The experts: FM's inventor, Major E. H. Armstrong, General Electric's Dr. W. R. G. Baker, and Walter J. Damm, president of FM Broadcasters, Inc. (also vice president of the Milwaukee Journal). Interest was aroused by: 1) the recent FCC acceptance of postwar FM station applications; 2) among newspaper applicants, such stalwarts as the New York Times and News, Omaha World-Herald, Washington Star, Atlanta Constitution, the three major St. Louis dailies. Another straw in the air-news wind: some...
...years a New Brunswick inventor named Rupert Turnbull has dreamed of building dams using Fundy's tides to generate an estimated 400,000 h.p.* If the tides can be effectively harnessed, if Inventor Turnbull's particular plan is good, the Maritimes would get cheaper electricity, postwar employment...
While the Wright brothers were still making their fledgling, flights, Inventor Turnbull was building Canada's first wind tunnel. Later he concentrated on aircraft propellers. To test homemade ones, he constructed a 300-ft. railway, mounted props on flatcars, learned which kinds had the greatest pull. His neighbors thought him mad. The upshot: patents on an electric controllable-pitch propeller, for which he draws royalties from such war-busy plants as Curtiss-Wright and Britain's Bristol Aeroplane...