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Bringing in the Leaves. For tobacco, last of the major field crops to require picking by hand, the Long Mfg. Co. of Tarboro, N. C. has developed a seven-man harvester mounted on wheeled stilts that can gather and tie into bundles enough leaves to fill two drying barns a day (seven men working by hand can fill only one barn a day). The harvester, which will be in production by January, can also be converted into a crop duster. Price: about...
...where he was born in Clint (pop: 770). He has always had a way with metals and money. An orphan at 9, Martin moved to Chicago, finished school at St. Aloysius Academy, and got his first feel of metals working in the toolshop of Chicago's Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. (marine motors). He first got the feel of money when he returned to Texas, and later went to Mexico as a railroad shop foreman...
...Craft. At Chicago's National Boat Show, Kermath Mfg. Co. showed off a new engine to propel small pleasure craft (16 tp 21 ft.) by a high-pressure jet of water instead or a propeller. Kermath's 60-h.p. Hydrojet shoots out the water from a nozzle beneath the stern, steers the boat by changing the direction of the jet. Chief advantage: the jet boat has no propeller to break in shallow water. Price $990 f.o.b. Detroit...
...peculiar plight he was in last week, Ralph Evinrude had only one explanation: "The boom was lowered." Evinrude, president of Outboard, Marine & Mfg. Co. (Evinrude, Johnson & Elto motors), had gone to what seemed a routine directors' meeting to elect four new members to the board, increasing it to nine. "That's all I thought we were going to do," he said. But, no sooner were the new members elected with the help of Evinrude's votes, than the board, by a vote of 6-3, fired President Evinrude. Installed in his place was J. G. Rayniak, executive...
...give its passengers a full dose of scenery on runs between Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle, the Milwaukee Road will put into service ten 68-passenger Super Dome lounge cars on Jan. 1. The double-decker coaches, which were displayed this week, were built by Pullman-Standard Car Mfg. Co. for $3,200,000. Each has more than three times as much glass-top viewing area (625 sq. ft.) as the older dome cars. On the lower level of each car there is a 28-person dining and lounge section...