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...Garand, Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at last was almost ready to begin quantity production. But Ordnance officers were still unhappy about Melvin Johnson and all his works, including his latest: a 14-lb. (when loaded; 12-lb. empty), super-simple, one-man machine gun. The Department continued to beg inventors to devise a 22-lb. light machine gun, up to last week had neither offered nor been asked to test the new Johnson. Having been told (unofficially, but unmistakably) that he could never do business with the U. S. Army, Inventor Johnson perforce took his deadly darlings to foreign buyers...
...grounds: 1) machine tools needed to make Johnson guns could better be used to make weapons on order for the Army, 2) the Johnson designs, although unwanted by the Army, constituted military secrets which should not be sold even to friendly powers. Military brasswigs had neither forgotten nor forgiven Inventor Johnson's original...
...plugged so that the Japanese Current would not be chilled by meeting up with the Arctic Current. Another thinker revealed that he was working on an airplane that could make 800 miles an hour. Another mind had invented an inverted periscope for seeing fish under water. After the inventor mentioned the fact that he had seen a submerged submarine 350 feet away with his periscope, the Navy had a talk with him, but nothing came of the discussion...
...inventor from California who has spent half of his time since 1921 in Europe McClatchie recently wrote "The Dictator" as a protest against the Administration's foreign policy. He said that because no publisher would accept his material, he had a few copies of the book mimeographed to be distributed among local book sellers...
Folks around Eagle Bridge never paid much attention to Grandma Moses' paintings. But one day a Manhattan inventor of a streamlined percolator named Louis Caldor happened to pass through Eagle Bridge, got a stomachache and entered the local country drugstore to buy some pills. There Inventor Caldor, who was also an art lover, saw one of Mrs. Moses' pictures standing on a counter, asked who painted it, went to see her. When he offered to pay good money for four of her pictures, Anna Moses was surprised. She was still more surprised when, two years later, Manhattan...