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...Patent No. 2,042,987 was issued to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. for a radio-controlled torpedo which can reverse its course if it misses and steer for its target again. Outlined in his prospectus was a method for dispatching entire fleets of torpedoes in formation, which could be speeded or slowed as they made for their targets...
...Oklahoma three weeks ago a half-dozen jailbirds ran away from prison to escape sterilization provided by law. In California last summer the daughter of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt failed to have two doctors jailed for spaying her under her mother's orders (TIME, Aug. 31).* Twenty-five other States, two Canadian provinces, one Mexican state, one Swiss canton, and five European countries have laws permitting or ordering the sterilization of criminals and mentally incompetent persons. In general, the effort is to prevent transmission of evil to children and children's children...
...proposed split is not the first but the second time that Founder Fairchild has made little corporations out of big ones. The tall, husky, 40-year-old inventor took his enterprises into Aviation Corp. when that big holding company was formed in 1929. At the end of two years Mr. Fairchild had had enough of the boomtime merger, arranged for his company to regain its independence. Since then he has collected for Fairchild a notable roster of executive and engineering talent, including such names as Col. John H. Jouett, famed "father of the Chinese air force"; James S. Ogsbury...
...from Laurel, however, is the Masonite ownership. Majority of the stock is still in the hands of the original Wisconsin lumbermen who backed the inventor. These include such potent paper and lumber names as Clark Everest (Marathon Paper Mills Co.), Aytch P. Woodson (B. C. Spruce Mills), Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey, dean of Wisconsin lumbermen. Biggest stockholder at last report (33,000 shares) is President Ben Alexander...
Masonite was jockeyed into a fine position for revival in building by winning a patent infringement suit in 1933 against Bror Dahlberg's Celotex Corp., No. 1 U. S. wallboard makers. Mr. Dahlberg makes his board of sugar cane fibre. He found, as Inventor Mason did, that hard board could be made from materials other than wood. By giving his sugar cane a little more heat and pressure, he too got a dense, rigid board. But Masonite sued and won, which meant that if anyone wanted hard board they had to buy Presdwood...