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...correspondents became vexed when "M. Scarlat Mondstireanu" (Carol's incognito) and Mme. Lupescu were shepherded into the Paris Train de Luxe by Carol's officious Roumanian secretary. Throughout the night, all persons concerned jolted and jounced in the crosswise cubicles of that admirable and omniscient concern, La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-restaurants et Wagons-lits et des Grands Express Europ?...
Televisor. In London, a concern called Television Ltd. obtained licenses to retail the "televisor," a radio device invented by John L. Baird* of Glasgow that permits "looking in" as well as listening in. Broadcasting from a televisor station in London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense...
...back from Europe, had attended a meeting of the building committee the day before, had examined the building plans, had expressed fear that the church would be so long that the preacher's voice would not carry to its depths. He was told not to worry, that of lesser concern than the length of the church would be the length of the sermons. The dining Bible students laughed heartily...
Another food products merger is in progress, headed by the Postum Cereal Co. Having absorbed the Jell-O Co. (dessert jellies) some weeks ago for 80 millions, and an Indiana cake-flour concern more recently, the Postum Co. last week acquired the California Packing Co. for 92 millions and announced that it was but beginning a series of operations which would make that figure and the Postum organazition itself mere drops in the bucket. Wall Street took seriously the thought that there would eventually be a combine between the Postum-made merger and National Food Products. Among companies mentioned...
Died. William Madison Wood, 68, famed founder and retired President of the American Woolen Co., world's largest textile concern, son of a Portugese sea cook named Jacintho (who later took the name William Jason Wood), at Daytona Beach, Fla., by shooting himself through the mouth. He had long had ill health...