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Died. John Daniel Rust, 61, onetime migrant worker who, with his brother Mack, devised the first successful mechanical cotton picker (1927); of a heart attack; in Pine Bluff, Ark. When Inventor Rust demonstrated his machine (which did the work of 50 to 100 field hands) in 1936, depression-weary Southerners feared it would cause unemployment, refused to use it on a large scale. Undaunted, Rust kept improving his machine, in 1949 put it into mass production, soon harvested a long-awaited fortune...
...degree in electrical engineering. At Columbia he also met Ruth D. Masters, a student of international law, whom he married in 1931. Still, his advance in the Navy was slow, and when he got his first and only seagoing command, it was the minesweeper Finch, a decrepit rust bucket operating in China waters. Called back to Washington from Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines (where his hard-driving efficiency had made whole shiploads of enemies), he was assigned to the Electrical Section of the Bureau of Ships. By the time he got command of the section...
...Rust Cover. A paint which will prevent further rusting when spread over a rusted surface was put on the market by Sealube Co., Wakefield, Mass. Price: $5.45 a quart, enough to cover...
...beach of Leyte just south of Tacloban, U.S. landing barges rust in the surf. A monument near by proclaims proudly that here in 1944, General Douglas MacArthur and the Americans landed to restore the Four Freedoms to the Philippine Islands...
...speech by Senator Jim Murray in use as a radio commercial by a retail outlet as a sales pitch to farmers to buy portable grain-storage bins. The implication: the new Administration is now forcing farmers to fend for themselves. In Hettinger, N. Dak. and Selby, S. Dak., where rust was threatening the wheat crop gripes followed the old Non-Partisan League line, and were directed like buckshot against the banks and Eastern capitalists around...