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Homer Clayton Price, who said this, is turning out $60,000 worth of aircraft accessories under subcontract for Cleveland's Pump Engineering Service Corp. (which makes hydraulic parts for Martin bombers). He is doing it with machine tools he built or converted himself. His factory is the dining room, kitchen, laundry, one bedroom, and garage of his middle-class Columbus, Ohio home. Two of his 22 employes are ex-convicts whom he met at the Ohio State Penitentiary...
...jailbird himself, Homer Price was superintendent of the Pen's machine shop. Thither last spring went a representative of Pump Engineering with the offer of a $30,000 subcontract. Homer Price agreed, took a leave of absence, borrowed $3,000, began converting his hillside home into a machine shop. Since precision machinery for aircraft parts was nowhere to be found, he made...
Rosenberg's Rise. Yet no copy writer has ever been able to pump more wordy gas into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy...
Hank Mazur, who jackrabbited 40 yards to tie up last year's encounter between the two teams at 6 to 6, is a very dangerous man. According to this week's tidings of gloom, Mr. Mazur does everything but pump up the ball when it is snapped back to him. Army operates in the old Dartmouth style of a single wingback, and in formation right this places Mazur at the tailback spot. Here he is suited to carry on the running pass plays with which Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth under Blaik's tutelage used to confound the Crimson secondary...
...metal. Besides offering these advantages, this part surprised engineers by being easier and cheaper to make from powder than by former methods. From this and similar pressed parts a wave of interest in powder metallurgy at once swept U.S. industry. First powdered-metal automotive gear appeared in the oil pump of the 1940 Oldsmobile, and this year more new parts have been made from powders...