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...rifle: Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Melvin Maynard Johnson's famed semiautomatic. Up to last week this gun had existed only in a few experimental models. On a subcontract let by Inventor Johnson last November, Universal had manufactured these first Johnsons for The Netherlands East Indies' 150,000 troops (including its Home Guard Army), which may soon need all the modern weapons they can get to use against the ambitious Japanese. Close behind an initial production block of 100 rifles come 500 more this week, with still larger outputs of 1,000 to 2,000 to come. Also...
Manager Ruhl had never made a gun or a gun part. Nor, so far as he knew, had any of his workmen. The specialized knowledge had to come from Inventor Johnson himself and from the boss of his barrel shop, an acidulous, gun-goofy Swede named Carl Ekdahl. By their joint ingenuity Johnson, Ekdahl, Ruhl & Co. had by last week piled up 5,300 finished barrels, 11,000 more barrels in process, 10,000 breech bolts, hundreds and thousands of other parts, before a gun was assembled...
Only four doctors have been considered eminent enough to win this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel, originator of the insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; Dr. Benjamin Philp Watson, head of Columbia's Sloane Hospital for Women...
...Army's Springfield rifle, which the Garand is replacing. The Springfield was developed by-two civilian workers: Daniel J. Manning and John L. Murphy. Last fortnight the Congressional Record printed a letter from Daniel Manning's son (Leonard T. Manning of New York City): "All he [Inventor Manning] got from the Government for his 40 years of service and . . . the improved 1903 Springfield rifle was a small pension from the date of his retirement in October 1926 to the time of his death in May 1927, a mere eight months. ... I believe Mr. Garand should be paid...
Samaritan. In Manhattan, an inventor displayed a doorbell requiring a nickel deposit, called it a "salesman repeller...