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Shouts & Affronts. The Senate rapidly dealt with three others. Michigan's Homer Ferguson objected to the nomination of a brash, left-winging ex-Congressman named Frank Hook to the Motor Carrier Claims Commission. Hook had run against Ferguson for the Senate in 1948. "The nominee is lacking in capacity," said Ferguson. Down went Hook. Then there was Martin A. Hutchinson, an able Virginia lawyer nominated to the Federal Trade Commission. Hutchinson had run against Senator Harry Byrd in the 1946 primary-Byrd's first opposition in 21 years. Byrd told the Senate that he did not want Hutchinson...
...Blackjack for the Kids. But a few months go, Dearborn began losing patience with Mayor Hubbard's lightheaded antics and heavy-handed rule. Voters reacted angrily when he tried to block a new $4,500,000 hospital which would be paid for with money donated by the Ford Motor Co., winced as he poured city money into a project known as Camp Dearborn, an elaborate public summer camp too far from the city to do most residents any good. When taxpayers complained, Little Orvie simply told them to shut up and raised property assessments...
...Uriah Smith's idea, back in 1900, of camouflaging cars with imitation horse heads, so as not to frighten real horses coming the other way. Then there was the Carter Twin-Engine car (price: $5,000), a forerunner, in a way, of the twin-engine airplane: if one motor conked out, the driver could still get home on the other...
...large room lined with tall, many-knobbed cabinets full of electronic apparatus. To simulate a missile, either actual or still-to-be-built, the knobs are set at positions corresponding to all of its characteristics. Some knobs take care of its air drag and the thrust of its rocket motor. Others express the action of its gyroscopic controls. Others account for the motion of its launching site (such as a naval vessel) and of its target (such as an enemy airplane...
Only once a year does the public get a partial peek at the finances of the privately owned Ford Motor Co., which never reports its profits. Last week, in the abbreviated statement which it is required to file in Massachusetts, Ford disclosed that its assets at the end of 1949 had reached a record $1.3 billion, a gain of more than $194 million from the previous year. To the executive team which piled up the impressive score, the company last week gave some additional recognition, elected five vice presidents to the board of director:: John S. Bugas (labor relations), Lewis...