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...Freight Shrinker. A freight-car Shrinker to cut cargo damage in railroad cars (last year American railroads paid more than $98 million in claims) was announced by New York Inventor Glenn F. Wilkes. The Shrinker is a movable steel bulkhead at each end of a freight car. As the cargo starts to shift in transit, the bulkhead automatically forces it back in place through a system of cogs and springs...
...victim of the Freudian mechanism of wish fulfill ment. It is useless to go by the opinions of unbelievers, because most of the unanalyzed tend to feel superior to those who have succumbed sufficiently to life's stresses to pay heavily to go to a "talking doctor," "head-shrinker," or "witch doctor," and have their "heads candled." On the other hand, it is all but impossible to argue with an orthodox Freudian (as with an adherent of any other "one true faith") because anybody who rejects the dogma is instantly accused of doing so only because...
...Landau, he had one of the worst relapses of his career. He made a fine, fast start and led the field for a mile; then, in the backstretch, he simply quit. Said a busted bettor: "That horse is so bad off, not even a head shrinker could fix him. His trouble is he knows he's inferior...