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...Detroit Inventor Kettering's domain is the big research building of General Motors Corp. The staff which calls him "Boss" (but his close friends prefer "Ket") is as large today as it was in 1929. Public appearances, consultations and the business of enjoying the millions of dollars he has earned have demanded more of Mr. Kettering's hours than ever. One of his appearances occurred last week when he spoke to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see p. 34). As usual he spoke about his all-absorbing credo of change. "We have reason...
...quarter minutes. Fast Life (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a flagrantly foolish little picture in which Sandy Norton (William Haines) wins a big speedboat race with his coy fiancee (Madge Evans) sitting beside him and a large crowd cheering, in Avalon Bay off Catalina Island, Calif. Sandy is a young inventor and ex-sailor who finances the installation of a special carburetor in his Miss Victory by boarding yachts and robbing their owners. It is giving away no secret to tell how the race turns out because by the time it happens you are likely to be waiting...
...virtually a duplicate of the set which Inventor Marconi, who is a Papal Marchese as well as an Italian Senator, gave to the Pope. His Holiness now can radio-talk directly with his recently renovated summer home at Castel Gandolfo 14 miles away, and no one can listen in. Cost of operating the equipment is no more than the cost of keeping a 30-watt incandescent bulb alight...
...economizes the energy thrown into the ultra short waves. Theoretically those waves, which approach light waves in rapid brevity, should behave like light and travel only in straight lines. Theoretically such waves cannot bend around Earth's circumference and thus serve to carry messages long distances. But Inventor Marconi has been communicating with them across 180 mi. Says he: ". . . For some reason . . . the waves are deflected and travel further than they should according to theory...
...history. Rooted deep in the autocratic individualism of the late Founder John Henry Patterson, N. C. R. in the early years of the century shouldered its strenuous way forward to the point where Founder Patterson could boast that he built 90% of the world's cash registers. The "inventor" of modern high-pressure salesmanship. Founder Patterson bullied and pampered his employes, told them what to eat, often shared as much as one-third of his net profits with them. When he died in 1922, a legendary figure, N. C. R. was still...