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...perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight, elevates it to the truck's level. Another Gross invention, not in production, is a combination ashtray & pipe-bowl cleaner which operates like the orange-juice extractors used by soda fountains. Mr. Gross's father was an inventor. His son. 6, and daughter, 11, invent things like bedside bookracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Can It Be Done? | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Cartoonist Lumen Winter supplies the drawings for the Post series, which was originally turned down by King Features Syndicate. Inventor Gross says he has an unlimited supply of material for his series. Anyone who wants to cash in on one of his notions may do so with his compliments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Can It Be Done? | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

Birthdays. Inventor Elihu Thomson (80), Andrew William Mellon (78), Associate Justice George Sutherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1933 | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Died. William C. State, 62, consulting engineer of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., inventor of a tire-building machine, builder of Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock; of complications following three months' illness; in Akron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1933 | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...Issac Royal and his family, which was done in 1741 and is one of the first group paintings we have, has been leaned by the Law School especially for this occasion. Another portrait, that of the Marquis de la Fayette, is the work of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. There is also a portrait by John S. Copley of Mrs. Robert Hooper, the wife of the merchant, who when Newcastle was without fuel, made his fortune by "carrying coals to Newcastle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/25/1933 | See Source »

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