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Outside Ohio, he was a political nobody-a bookkeeper who, in 1936, had slipped in as state auditor on the tail gate of the Roosevelt bandwagon. He had almost no backing from the regular Democratic organization. He did have a following of state employees, auditors and examiners, and he rarely if ever forgot a name or a face. He had organized and supported a Columbus softball team named "Ferguson's Auditors," and annually he mailed out 150,000 Christmas cards bearing photographs of his handsome wife and their growing family of eight children...
...from the Army and a $9,900 award from the Navy. His first actual order was for $7,672 worth of parts for Convair's Stinson observation planes. The company kept going during World War II by making such varied products as ammo boxes, gun turret parts and tail assemblies...
...Labrador some 30 years ago, a fur trader named Clarence Birdseye caught a fish, watched it freeze instantly in the 50° below zero temperature. Days later, he dropped the fish into a pail of water to thaw it out, was amazed to see the fish flip its tail and swim about. Birdseye decided that he had "unlocked one of nature's secrets"-and also hit upon a new way to preserve food. When he returned to civilization (i.e., his home in Gloucester, Mass.), he developed a mechanical quick-freezing process and thereby laid the foundation of the frozen...
...owner," Manhattan's elegant Black, Starr & Gorham last week ran a discreet ad. At prices starting at $30, motorists were offered car keys of gold with religious, scenic or auto insignia "to do justice to [their] shiny possession." Snappiest model: a miniature Cadillac with movable wheels, ruby tail lights, diamond headlights and a key that retracts into the chassis. Price...
Last week the NACA told about a recoverable model that can be used over & over again. In its tail is a strongly made dive-brake which opens gradually as the model approaches the ground (see cut). When the speed has been reduced sufficiently, a parachute pops out and lowers the model to the earth. The model's instruments are self-recording. After the records have been taken out and the parachute repacked, the model can be sent aloft for another drop...