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This $17,000 marvel of modern engineering can raise an 85 foot ladder in any desired direction, thanks to its 200 horse power Hercules engine. "One beauty of the hydraulically operated ladder," explained an elderly looking fireman, "Is that a man can perch out on the end of it before it is raised and save himself the climb...
Last week President Roosevelt's NIRB committee, headed by Economic Adviser Leon Henderson, made public its report on conditions in the automobile industry. It did not mention Fisher Body's 18 giant presses but had many another marvel of technological advance to reveal. Ex- amples...
Typical of Hartford management was the company's practical progressiveness, its stanch independence. Hartford Electric was the first U. S. utility to use high-voltage transmission, first to use aluminum lines, first to install a steam turbine, first to use that marvel of efficiency, the mercury turbine. But the spirit of innovation never pushed its way into the treasurer's office. Not only is Hartford Electric completely free of a holding company; its capitalization is the simplest conceivable-840,000 shares of common stock and not a dollar of bonded debt...
Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel put in a chapter of good words for U. S. wine, say the U. S. has a needless inferiority complex about its domestic wine, but will have to clean house in the matter of dishonest labeling. They give a chapter apiece to the wines of France, Germany. Italy, Spain and Portugal; tell how to buy wine-what to ask the dealer, what prices are right. Anxious hostesses may consult a table showing what wine to serve with what dish. (Beer-swillers, whiskey-totters will find nothing for them in The Complete Wine Book; but Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel...
...Authors present respectable credentials. Frank Schoonmaker has roamed the vineyards of Europe many years, "collecting information and pleasant experiences," for the past year has been wine correspondent for the New Yorker. Tom Marvel, Connecticut vineyard-owner, is now on the Paris staff of the New York Herald, has served on French wine juries, written home about wine...