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...Manhattan last week, Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery announced a new, virtually painless dental drill, the Cavitron. Designed to replace the nerve-wracking metal burr, the pencil-shaped Cavitron is quieter and quicker...
...Faster & Quicker. Pacific Far East hoped it could keep sailing without a Government subsidy and thereby travel when and where it pleased. But taxes ate up so much of the profits that the line could not accumulate enough of a reserve to buy new equipment. Last year Pacific Far East went on the Government-subsidy list and its routes were restricted. But the subsidy made it possible to build the Golden Bear* and two more Mariners soon to come off the ways...
Says Tom Cuffe: "You've got to be quicker, faster and better . . . Our only chance to beat the cheaper foreign competition is to be ahead of them. With the Mariners we'll get to Japan in eight days instead of twelve, and to Manila in twelve instead of 18. That'll give us a lead for six ... or eight years ... In the meantime . . . we'll have to think of some way to keep ahead...
...life in the railroad-equipment industry. General Motors' Electro-Motive Division has designed a special flatcar, 75 ft. long and capable of carrying two trailers, v. one for present cars. The G.M. car can be loaded from the side by means of a forklift, thus making for quicker and more flexible handling than the old-fashioned "circus loading," by which trailers were rolled up a ramp at the end of the car. American Car & Foundry, Bethlehem Steel, Pressed Steel Car and others are ready to manufacture piggyback equipment, and Pullman-Standard has had 500 inquiries about its piggyback flatcar...
...wrote the builder a code of minimum standards that was not as stiff as the one governing public construction. With this flexibility, the private contractor was able to cut certain costs and build more cheaply than the government itself could. But even if private construction had not been quicker and cheaper than public building, which it was, the federal government would have been restrained on political grounds. A substantial part of the nation in 1941 felt that federal building meant slum clearance, and nothing more. The federal octopus was requested to keep out of middle priced building...