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...Douglas MacLean who four years ago was a famed comedian, the star boarder is a swindler. Another boarder dabbles in inventions. Both are interested in the pretty daughter. The swindler persuades the landlady's husband to steal his wife's money, buy stock in an oil company. The inventor's device?to provide whistling valves on flat tires?is sold for a large sum. As farce, it is weak as barley-water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...confused with Dr. H. Clay Glover, inventor of famed Glover's Mange Cure (now known as Glover's Farcoptic Mange Medicine & Antiseptic Hair Application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Much more important are other outside devices: a conning tower surmounted by a circular saw capable of cutting through 13 ft. of ice; and two thin tubes which, in case the boat is frozen under deep ice, can drill upward 100 ft. to air. Simon Lake, submarine inventor of Stratford, Conn, designed all these devices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Polliwog | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...curious, workmen plied torch and hacksaw upon the metal framework of a great, grotesque airplane last week at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. It was the 20-passenger tandem-wing machine built, at an expense of about $500,000, by Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inks & inkwells. Eccentric Inventor Davis was killed last month when he tried to test a glider of the same design (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Aeropostale's Plight | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Gloomy witness to last week's proceedings was the inventor's son, Albert Davis, who had ordered the machine destroyed. It would take at least a year, he said, for engineers to find whether a workable idea existed in his father's designs, which he had preserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Aeropostale's Plight | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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