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Unveiled in Manhattan's General Post Office, the Mailomat is about the size of a telephone booth, performs a similar service. You put your money in one slot, your letter in another, push a lever and the letter is automatically stamped and posted. Advantages are sanitation (no licking) and speed (no waiting at a post office window, no need for the letter to be canceled...
Motors were the quarter's most dramatic performers. Chrysler doubled sales, General Motors spurted 47%, and, with this improvement as a lever, both sextupled profits over 1938. Both companies nowadays need only a few months of fair business in any year to roll up what most of the U. S. regards as a boom year's profits. With increased volume G. M.'s quarter's earnings ($53,178.000) amounted to 14.4% of sales, compared to 3.3% a year ago. This was a clue to other earnings, for when G. M. earns only 3.3% on sales...
...have a potent lever here to force the British to cooperate--just the sort of one which would send Chamberlain running over here with his umbrella," Professor Elliott remarked...
...deviously one foggy night this week on the Chicago Great Western Railroad. On a siding at Tennant, on the Iowa plains, a freight engine crew scrambled from the cab when a steam pipe burst. With brakes somehow released, the locomotive backed into a string of cars and with reverse lever swung forward by the impact, reversed its direction. Passing its appalled engineer and fireman it swung out on to the main line, picked up a grain car ahead of it and disappeared into the mist. Up the main line at 50 m.p.h. whipped No. 34, Great Western's night...
With the Wind), Farrar & Rinehart pulled the lever again last week with another whopper, The Tree of Liberty (985 pages to 1,224 for Anthony Adverse). The book and the law of averages being what they are, no jackpot is likely to shower down. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page's first novel, took five years to write, will not take so long to read. Its breeziness is astounding, in view of the hot and heavy research the author did for it (32 huge collections of national, state, private records and letters, files of 26 periodicals, 183 biographies, histories...