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...familiar with the accuracy of TIME, also LETTERS, the writer had a chill of fear for the safety of the Presidential party on their recent cross-country jaunt. In the picture of Engineer Britton looking [TIME, Oct. 7] straight ahead with keen eye and steady hand on the throttle lever, it appears very much as though the reversing gear is set to send the locomotive and its burden in the opposite direction, quite a dangerous practice on any railroad...
Nearly a year ago in Federal Court in South Bend there came up for trial a famed suit involving four-fifths of the U. S. soap business. Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet were suing Lever Brothers Co. for infringement of patents covering the art of spraying hot, liquid soap into hot, dry air where it becomes Ivory Snow (Procter & Gamble), Super Suds (Colgate) or Rinso (Lever). For weeks Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick listened to a flood of foamy oratory, saw reels of soap cinemas, inspected elaborate soap laboratories set up for his edification by expensive soap lawyers (TIME...
...manufacturer in the U. S. When it was founded in a Fort Madison, Iowa jeweler's shop in 1913, most fountain pens clogged, scratched, leaked or had to be filled with a medicine dropper. Jeweler Walter A. Sheaffer patented one of the first important improvements-a lever bar filling device. With a capital of $35,000 he started manufacturing Sheaffer pens in the back room of his jewelry shop...
...ideally suited because of his size, his strength, his enormous Marseille voice, generally admitted to be the loudest in Paris. President Bouisson broke the handle of so many brass dinner bells, bonging for order, that the present bell is firmly screwed to the desk, rung by a lever at the top. Like a head waiter, President Bouisson has spent his working hours in full dress. When the bonging of his bell or the bellow of his voice failed to quiet a parliamentary riot, he had one last way to restore order. He clapped his hat on his bald head. When...
...flywheel turned so fast that a braking force of 150 horsepower was necessary to stop it. The 150 h. p. merely represented the accumulated energy of one-quarter horsepower applied over a two-week period. When it was discovered that Mr. Giragossian had made use of a "time-lever," he was told to get out of the halls of Congress until he could prove that he was the "first and original discoverer or inventor." Last February his good friend, Representative Clarence John McLeod of Michigan, again persuaded Congress to consider the Garabed wheel...