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Former meteorographs have carried a clock or propellor to operate the instrument, as was recently described in the CRIMSON. The difficulty lay in making a clock cheap enough to be lost after every ascension and in finding an efficient propellor. This instrument carries, however, simply a screw thread whose grooves are filled with an insulating material. On this bears a contact attached to an evacuated box such as is used in an ordinary aneroid barometer. Every time the contact crosses a thread, a corresponding interruption occurs in the radio signal. This signal was received on a rotating drum. The distance...
...products of Boston's United-Carr Fastener Corp. would look amiss in the notion bag of a Yankee peddler. Its line, buckles, screw machine parts, purse frames, ornaments; leather, metal and bakelite specialities; automobile hardware radio tube pins, clips, sockets, soldering lugs; fastener attaching machines; fasteners for automobile, airplane and motor boat upholstery, carpets, tops, curtains; or luggage, footwear, gloves, raincoats, overalls, caps. Chief bugaboo of United-Carr Fastener is the ubiquitous zipper...
...Bedford, May 2--The 108-foot British oil screw vessel, Accuracy, was detained by Coast Guards at New Bedford today while Customs Officials and guardsmen hunted 3000 cases of smuggled liquor, valued at $50,000, reported landed and concealed somewhere between Nonquitt and Smith's Neck during the night...
...Snap-On Tool Co.. Andrew B. Kotlarek, 34, eked it out for three years with purchasing agent checks to John K. Leander of the Economy Press. Universal Sales & Supply Co. and Leander Sales Co., Frank Kotten of the General Abrasive Products Co., Carl Hellen of the United Screw Products Co., all of which were really Andrew B. Kotlarek. Last week he was caught...
...Seven-thirty and a cold morning! How I hate to get out of my bed and shut down the two windows between which my bed is placed, but at last I screw up my courage and with a leap I am out on the floor and hastily closing the windows. Then 15 minutes of setting-up exercises, a cold sponge and on with my riding clothes...