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...American Machinist predicted that U.S. citizens would wear fewer political campaign buttons in 1948. Reason: the cost of manufacture is now 2? per button as compared...
...resent the satires on British mores of such writers as Max Beerbohm, "Saki," and Evelyn Waugh, but he will concede humor to the contrariness of inanimate objects-such as the collar-button under the bureau-preferably someone else's collar-button. He dislikes gloomy foreign philosophies such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism, and he likes to see them made fun of, in his fashion. Recently he has been getting what he wants in some spirited exercises in the Spectator's colums...
...responsible Pasadena newsman. Astronomer Hubble himself does not remember whether he made the statement or not, "rather doubts" that he did because he is not a swearing man. "I may not have made the remark on this particular occasion," he adds, "but I assure you that I do not button my collar on the back of my neck...
Behind each signal button is an electronic tube. The moment the button is touched (it doesn't have to be pushed), the tube sends an electronic signal which automatically stops the next elevator at that floor. Inside the elevator, the operator also works his door controls by electronic button controls...
...system does away with a large amount of electric wiring (about 40 electromagnetic relays in a 20-story building). Since the touch button has no moving parts, no mechanical failures are possible...