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While he ran his San Francisco business with one hand, Frawley began to sell ballpoint pens, made by a Los Angeles aircraft-parts manufacturer, with the other. Before long, the manufacturer could not keep up with sales of the inexpensive (97?) pen, which wrote well and did not leak. Frawley bought him out for $18,000, rented a factory for $450 a month and started manufacturing Paper-Mate pens. To solve the problem of fading and transferable ink, he used a new ink that a Hungarian chemist mixed in a makeshift home lab. Frawley's first selling coup...
...potential as a business was not overlooked. In downtown Geneva, private concerns from nine countries staged their own unofficial "Trade Fair" of atomic products. The largest exhibit is from Britain, which is striving to become the world's atomic workshop. Its firms show the flow meters, leak detectors, radiation monitors, flux meters, etc. which are the simple, indispensable tools of the new technology. The French show a replica of a uranium mine entrance. The U.S. exhibit, with contributions mostly from big firms such as General Electric and Union Carbide, suggested the industrial look of tomorrow: privately designed power...
Finally the trouble with both rockets was discovered: a small leak that did not develop until the rocket was in flight and vibrating...
...Leak. In Springfield. Mass.. the Hampden District Medical Society barred reporters from a special meeting at which doctors voted to double membership dues to increase the society's public-relations program...
...Leak. All this feverish activity proved to be too much for the Times exclusive. In Manhattan the New York bureau of the Chicago Tribune is in the Times's building, and the Trib got wind of what was going on, tipped off Trib Managing Editor Don Maxwell in Chicago. He telephoned New York Times Managing Editor Catledge, tried to make a deal: he would split the costs of preparing the texts if the Times would cut in the Trib. When Catledge refused. Maxwell went after the text himself. He told his Washington bureau to stir up Illinois Senator Everett...