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...have telephones, 70 have electric or gas refrigerators and 63 employ one or more servants. There are 109 autos, 27 pianos, 45 electric washing machines among each 100 TiME-read-ing families; 39 of the families have one or more dogs, and six have either a yacht or a motor boat...
...catch the whole football spectacle, Photographer Strock dug up a pair of half-forgotten cameras that were popular in grandfather's time: a boxlike "panoramic camera" with a swiveling lens, and a "circuit camera" turned full circle by a small, spring-driven motor. Years ago itinerant cameramen used these wooden "buzz-boxes,'' turning out four-foot films of school graduations and political clambakes. Today Photographer Strock finds new use for the oldtime cameras by fitting them with modern color film, to capture the charging players and the roaring crowds in a single sweep...
...addition to a new line of cars, Chrysler also added a new company last week. It agreed to pay $35 million, the book value, for the machinery, equipment and eleven plants of the Briggs Mfg. Co., which has been making bodies for Plymouths and for the Packard Motor Car Co. The biggest block (19%) of Briggs's stock is held by the family of Founder Walter O. Briggs, who also own the Detroit Tigers...
...Europe's postwar auto market, small cars have walked off with the honors and most of the sales. Last week at the 38th International Motor Show in London's cavernous Earls Court, British automen put in their biggest bid for the booming '"baby" market. On display, along with such sporty models as the low-slung Singer SMX, went the new Standard Eight ($956) and a larger, more powerful version of the Ford Anglia ($1,008). Feature of the show: the two cheapest production cars in the world. One was the Austin A30, a two-door, four-cylinder...
Pocket Dynamos. A line of portable electric-power generators, which run on gasoline, kerosene or diesel oil, has been developed for farms and summer cottages by the Cyclohm Motor Corp. of Racine, Wis. Mounted on wheelbarrow carriages in power ranges from 350 to 5,000 watts, the new power plant can be trundled wherever needed, used to operate everything from a farmer's electric saw to a houseful of electric gadgets. Price...