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Died. Mary Anderson, 87, who invented the first patented windshield wiper (1903), a hand-operated device for streetcars; in Monteagle, Tenn...
Norman Biltz, born a poor boy in Bridge port, Conn, in 1902, for a while seemed destined to run in the jostling and confident pack of those who always see but never seize the glittering tumbleweed of fortune. But after toiling as a steamboat wiper, a strikebreaker, a manufacturer's agent and a bond salesman, he switched to real estate and finally reached Nevada with a grandiose scheme, later carried out at a profit of almost half a million dollars, to peddle practically the whole eastern shore of Lake Tahoe. Nevada, at the moment, was in bad shape...
...worth of decals a year, mostly German imports, were used in the U.S. Meyercord carved out a domestic market by making decals for bicycle, sled and sewing-machine manufacturers. Len Knopf, whose father was a Meyercord pressman, started working in the plant during the summer as a press wiper when he was 16. After two years of college, he was hired as a salesman, by 1929 had worked up to sales manager. The Depression hit Meyercord hard, knocked sales down from $2,000,000 to $700,000; artists were put to work painting factory walls a different color every month...
...below zero and the pressure low enough to make a man's blood boil; though the little plane's cockpit was pressurized and air-conditioned, Bridgeman wore a specially designed pressure-suit with a helmet like a deep-sea diver's. A tiny windshield wiper cleared the face plate of the condensed moisture from his breath...
...being the better part of valor to get my car out of there, I held my breath, climbed in through a window and pressed the starter. It wouldn't start. Early the next morning the Cambridge rescue squad dug me out. There was a ticket on the other windshield wiper...