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...Denver put on sale a gun that repairs flat tires by shooting a rubber compound into punctures while the tire is still on the wheel. The compound seals the hole in the tire casing and also patches the inner tube. Each Vulco-Weld Tire Gun contains enough compound to fix 50 tubeless tires or 20 regular ones. Price...
...situations, as Johnson said, that will always have the disadvantage which we have already tried. For we have actually felt its liabilities at first hand, while, in imagining prospects we have not yet been forced to live through, the disadvantages are less vividly felt, and we fix our attention on the more pleasing side. This may possibly apply to any undergraduate feeling that agrees with your editorial. If the other pasture, from a distance, looks greener, could there not be some trust that many members of the Faculty have seen that other pasture closely, and remember very well what...
...Association, an organization of some 5,000 independent fishermen who last year caught $15 million worth of shrimp (and some oysters) in the Mississippi Sound for sale to packers at Biloxi, Pascagoula and Pass Christian, Miss. The Government charged that the association and its officers used "coercive practices" to fix prices, and "force and violence" to cut off supplies of shrimp to dealers who did not meet its terms. By these methods, said the trustbusters, shrimp prices were kept high...
...ranch. Its teacher: Mrs. Joseph Pojar. Its pupils: five little Pojars. Near Broadwater, one 82-year-old teacher has to live in the school, cook her meals on a hot plate, sleep on a cot pitched beside her desk. Near Kimball, Teacher Helen Layer is in the same fix: she has one room, one stove, one pupil...
...rifle shooting, squash, handball and horsemanship. He was even pretty good with bow & arrow. But two years after he hung up his cleats, a reporter discovered him working with a pick & shovel for $4 a day. Jim's fondness for firewater had helped to get him in the fix. Ever a happy optimist Jim figured, "I'll come out of this, and I'll do some saving when I do." Ten years later-after Jim had sold the movie rights to his life story for $1,500-his second wife charged him with "excessive drinking," divorced...