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...over Britain last week, workmen were using a strange new construction material that looked amazingly like sections of a toy Erector set and worked much the same way. The material was the Dexion Slotted Angle, a slotted steel strip bent to form a right angle and designed to be bolted on to other strips ad infinitum. Ever since it went on sale five years ago, it has been used as the frame for everything from waste baskets to cradles for huge water towers. Among its most enthusiastic buyers is the U.S. Air Force, which uses it on air bases...
...find companies for sale. A.M.F. investigated more than 400 companies, bought nine, mostly by trading A.M.F. stock: Transducer Corp. (radar, electronics engineering), Union Machinery Co. (baking equipment), DeWalt, Inc. (radial arm saws and homecraft power tools), Cleveland Welding Co. ("Roadmaster" bicycle, second largest seller in the U.S.) Junior Toy Corp. ("Junior" tricycle, biggest seller in the U.S.), Sterling Engineering Co. Inc. (electrical relays), Float-Lock Corp. (drill press vises), Thompson-Bremer & Co. (lock nuts and washers, electrical terminals) and Leland Electric Co. (electrical motors and equipment...
Local art patrons have the opportunity this week to see the work of the Rock-pool Art Center, an unique community of Boston artists. During the winter, the program of the Harvard Athenaeum members follow their individual crafts, painting, sculpture, woodworking, and toy making. Summers, the men retreat to New Hampshire where they combine their talents on various projects. Each piece they turn out is designed as a general commodity rather than as an "ivory tower" art product. The Behn-Moore galleries, in the basement of the Brattle Theatre, will be exhibiting 400 Rockpool objects until November...
...Gotham Lighting Corp., New York City). ¶Elegant, modernistic fish in contrastingly colored woods, handmade by Connecticut Sculptor Clark Voorhees ($270, Hansen, Manhattan). ¶Children's mobiles, with figures from nursery rhymes ($3.95, Spacecraft, Detroit) ; "Rocket" and a "Circus" collection of acrobats and animals ($2.50 and $2, Modern Toy Co., Chicago). Explains one manufacturer of nursery mobiles: "They have a beautifully soothing effect on kids...
...which was buying baby food at the rate of 270 million cans in 1940, this year is buying it at the rate of 1.5 billion cans. In the same period, the U.S. toy industry has grown from an $84 million-a-year stripling to a $900 million giant, and the sale of bicycles has almost doubled (2,000,000 last year). These are the measuring sticks of the Great Baby Boom-the greatest in U.S. history. They are also the advance signs of how the great growth in U.S. population in the last 13 years will transform the economy...