Word: pistone
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...behind news cameras are trained to be as impassive, as mechanically efficient in time of crisis as surgeons or telephone girls. By hook or crook they must get that picture. Last week to the venerable dean of Paris news photographers, Louis Piston, came the opportunity to crown his adventurous career by photographing the assassination of the President of the Republic...
...criticism, sober and ribald, to which the venal trade of publicizing has been subjected seems to have been blunted on the dullness of its target. Or possibly the public has become so habituated to the nonsensical claims by manufacturers who keep safety-pins and piston rods fresh in cellophane, that claptrap and falsehood in advertising neither arouses suspicion as to the purity and worth of the product, nor awakens resentment in the minds of the duped. If this is so no hopes can be held for any immediate change. But if the flood of periodicals mocking the accepted lies...
...began to make things in their Hagerstown barn. They made a hand car for railroads and in 1895 organized Railway Cycle Manufacturing Co. Later they began to make internal combustion engines and in 1914 the company became Teetor-Hartley Motor Co. Four years later they decided to specialize in piston rings and until 1928, when the present name was assumed, the company was Indiana Piston Ring...
...from graduating from University of Pennsylvania with honors in engineering or from designing most of the company's patented machinery. Tall, gaunt, he spent the War years working in a shipyard. The ship company tried to persuade him to stay with them but he was loyal to piston rings and returned to Hagerstown. He is sensitive about his blindness, walks alone to work each day without a cane and often goes for a stroll through the factory...
Still confident, last week Perfect Circle was opening a plant in Toronto to avoid the 27½% tariff on piston rings...