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...Over and over again he does his navigation chores: ". . . And 12 make 23. Twenty-three-what do I want with 23?" But even in a semi-stupor, he does his chores right. In the 27th hour, he joyously sights some fishing smacks. Diving to 50 ft., he throttles his motor and yells: "Which way is Ireland?" He gets no answer, but within an hour he is over the Irish coast. Then come the Cornish cliffs of England, the Channel, the coast of France. Hungry, he munches a sandwich, first food in 33 hours, slakes his dry throat from the still...
Boiling Kettle. Henry Reichhold has never worried about the difficulty of competing with giants. He has been doing it since he first went into business in 1925 in a one-car garage in Detroit. Son of a German paint manufacturer, Reichhold had come to the motor capital a year earlier, attracted by the exciting new Du Pont auto finishes. He spent three years as supervisor of Ford's paint manufacturing plant, but on the side, with a $10,000 stake from his father, began boiling synthetic resins experimentally in a kettle in a friend's garage. He used...
...Clearer View. After three years and some $50,000 in research, a group of headlight manufacturers headed by General Electric Co. announced an improved sealed-beam headlight for autos which will be available within two years. The new light, approved by a subcommittee of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, gives wider vision down the righthand side of the road, has greater overall range, cuts down on flareback in fog and rain, thus virtually eliminates the need for separate fog lights...
Once he had said: "Without a motor under my feet, it's hard to face death." Last year he had a stroke that partly paralyzed him. Last week, after another stroke, Tazio Nuvolari, 61, finally met death, but not the way he had always wanted it. He died...
...general landlord for all other agencies, Mansure has cracked down on wasteful habits all over Washington. By installing a motor pool, he cut the number of cars used by his own agency from 36 to eight. He also persuaded Small Business Administrator William Mitchell, who rates a $1,400 sedan, to use a $365 secondhand Mercury instead...