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Pocket Dynamos. A line of portable electric-power generators, which run on gasoline, kerosene or diesel oil, has been developed for farms and summer cottages by the Cyclohm Motor Corp. of Racine, Wis. Mounted on wheelbarrow carriages in power ranges from 350 to 5,000 watts, the new power plant can be trundled wherever needed, used to operate everything from a farmer's electric saw to a houseful of electric gadgets. Price...
...this superselling started in 1837, when British-born William Procter, a candlemaker, and Irish-born James Gamble, a soapmaker, married sisters and went into business together. At the beginning, they peddled their crude soap and candles in a wheelbarrow in Cincinnati, then a frontier town. But as the region grew up, the company prospered. Soon its wares were being shipped by boat to New Orleans, Louisville and Pittsburgh, and gross sales rose to $1,000,000 a year...
...harder and harder to get jobs, while they pay more and more for everything from meat to movie tickets. But it is still fairly common to see a day laborer broiling his lunch-a thick, juicy steak the size of a dinner plate-over a fire in his wheelbarrow. After two bad drought years, farmers last year harvested a fine, 7.8 million-ton wheat crop. After a year of tasteless, sandy-colored bread adulterated with birdseed, Argentines are again eating white bread...
...studio in Fordingbridge, 75 miles from London, looked oddly unlike the workshop of a great painter. Instead of easel and brushes, a wheelbarrow full of clay stood in the center of the room, the wooden kitchen table was littered with well-used sculptor's tools, and finished and unfinished busts rested on pedestals or were swaddled in damp cloth. But for all the strange clutter, it was the studio of Britain's dean of portraitists: bearded crusty old Augustus John, still vigorous and sharp-eyed at 74. In the six months, John has picked up the sculptor...
...Fisher, who will make two addresses during his visit, said part of his time would be spent boning up on the coronation rite for the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II next June. Also, though not as active a gardener as Bishop Sherrill, "I shall be ready to push the wheelbarrow as far as I may be able...