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Consider a small British button manufacturer. One hundred men work for him each week, though his factory will only hold 50. Half the men work Monday through Wednesday, draw their dole the rest of the week. Meanwhile the other half have drawn their dole for three days, work Thursday through Saturday. So well does this half-loaf, half-work system please the proletarian that when he does work he is willing to accept a slightly lower daily wage than if forced to work regularly, and this pleases the manufacturer. There are also cases of deliberate collusion: a man works...
...device consists essentially of a fast camera hidden behind a mirror. The mirror contains a hole. After the subject has leisurely arranged his pose, clothes and face the way he wants to have them (reflecting mirrors help him pose for profile and half-profile views) he presses an electric button. The front mirror drops; the hole flashes past the camera lens; the pose registers on the film. An attendant sends the films to New Haven for developing, retouching and printing on cabinet size pictures. Cost of one dozen PhotoReflex prints is considerably under standard studio rates. Greater...
When a motorist wants his car back he turns a key, presses a button or drops a coin, according to the parker's electric control arrangement. Thereupon the cage containing his car drops to street level, the car rolls out, much like a "hot dog" rolling out of a roasting machine in a roadside rotisserie...
...SURRENDER-Jo Van Ammers-Kuller -Button...
...ingeniously arranged to make the automobile driver feel instantly at home. The dashboard almost exactly duplicates that of the oldtime Model T Ford car. The pilot sits at the wheel, flips a conventional Ford motor switch on the instrument board, presses his heel on an ordinary Ford starter button, pulls out a Ford choke rod, shifts his feet to-instead of a rudder bar-a set of pedals like the old Ford transmission pedals, yanks with his left hand a Ford brake lever that locks both wheels, or brakes either one for ground-steering. Because the engine and propeller...