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...used to say: "I would rather teach than be President." His tradition of free inquiry continues. Consequently by no means all the bulletins that emanate from Schenectady have to do with straightforward improvements in electrical equipment. Lately GE announced a garbage-grinder which would simplify removal of "kitchen waste" by flushing it, chopped fine, down the sink drain. Even farther removed from the usual run of industrial research was last week's report that from GE's laboratories had emerged a new kind of lily, which seemed good enough to patent...
...m.p.h. over hill & dale. The mechanized detachment of the ist Cavalry (at present stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., where the Treasury is building great underground vaults in which to store gold bullion) consisted of two fully armored, five-ton, six-wheeled cars, two "half tracks" (semi-caterpillars), a rolling kitchen capable of preparing meals at 40 m.p.h., a motorcycle and sidecar and a baggage truck...
Ashore, Captain Sullivan and his crew spent three days examining the new "village," with its radio station, weather bureau, power plant, refrigeration plant, electric stills for drinking water, airport office, service shops, kitchen, dining hall, four buildings for living quarters. Then last week they flew back across the International Date line to Midway, on to Hawaii, finally to San Francisco, having traveled 10,064 miles in three weeks in the third exploratory testing of the new airline...
...Chicago a huge turkey was cooked in a huge oven in a huge (24 ft. long) electric range. It came out done to a turn. Satisfied, Edison General Electric Appliance Co. announced that the $5,000 stove to be installed in the White House kitchen, now being renovated at a cost of $152,000, had passed all tests, was fit to cook the President's breakfast or a dinner for 150 diplomats...
...sank into debt, were closed. He dismissed his chauffeur, sold his houses, pawned his wife's jewels. Martha Washington candies vanished from public sale in New York. Last year, penniless, Mr. Washburne moved to a one-room flat. There he spent his days puttering with candy on the kitchen stove, finally concocted some sweets made of fresh fruit and vegetables. Each day he slipped out of the flat, went to Times Square. There he tied a placard on his chest, stood by subway exits selling candies made from corn, spinach, beets, carrots, peas. Too proud to tell his wife...