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After three years Mr. Kent was able to buy a one-cylinder automobile, "not being married and not having to conserve cash," he explains. From the ignition trouble in that car dates the rise of Kent. Develop ing an ignition system of his own, which earned him a Franklin Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kent Quits | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

The restraint and precision marking the report from beginning to end should do much to make the Dean's office realize the high quality of thought underlying it. The features of last year's platform, neglected by the authorities, and stressed again this year, seem to demand especially prompt action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YARD STATES ITS CASE | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

Their lead-off man (H. V. Reeves) jumped into the lead at the start of the 440-yd. race. Passing the baton with precision, No. 2 (Beverly Rockhold) and No. 3 (Charles Gruneisen) held the lead. At the final touch-off Texas' anchor-man (Harvey Wallender) had a five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relays | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Ponderous Senator Smith has sat in his well-whittled seat longer than any other man in the Senate except William Edgar Borah. He keeps a quid of tobacco in his ample cheek, spits into his Senatorial cuspidor with regularity and precision, speaks for cotton as a cotton grower, heads the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Conversations About Cotton | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Merging Machines. To most people Pratt & Whitney is a builder of airplane engines. Fact is, Pratt & Whitney's big Hartford, Conn, plants make no engines at all. The company is one of the leading U. S. manufacturers of precision machine tools and manufacturing instruments.* Moreover, Pratt & Whitney is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Corporations | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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