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...From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service. He shouted: "Dr. Coupal! Dr. COUPAL! The President wants you. Hurry!" Presidential Physician James F. Coupal seized his medicine bag, leapt from his car, rushed forward. Secret service men, newspaper correspondents leapt from various units of the motor cavalcade. In a few, simple words, the President asked Dr. Coupal to stop at Saranac Lake and get him a new pair of fishing boots...
...fathers had been over-zealous in their ministrations to the accelerator. Had they been gallopading? Driving with one hand ? Gas-hawking, road-hogging? Amazed that good Catholics could ask such well-nigh blasphemous questions, Bishop O'Connor made answer. For no such ribald reason had he forbidden motor vehicles. He simply felt, he explained, that priests in the city did not need them...
Machine builders have always wanted a steel that had a soft core with a hard surface or "skin." Such a steel would furnish an enduring wearing surface and yet be easy to shape. It would be invaluable to makers of motor cars, typewriters, adding, sewing, knitting machines-wherever wearing parts are needed. Metallurgists have produced soft, shapable steels. They have devised hard steels which were expensive to "work." But not till last week did any one announce a steel with all the desiderata of the machine builder...
...eliminate a tremendous percentage of the danger-and fear-of aviation. Pilot R. Carl Oelze of the Naval Reserve had the temerity to ascend in his plane to 2,500 ft., jerk the strings of a monster parachute folded in the fuselage behind the cockpit, shut off his motor and let the plane plunge toward the ground like a plummet. Anxious watchers saw a white mushroom suddenly billow above the dropping craft. With a jerk, the plane's fall was retarded to a comparatively gradual downward float, about 38 ft. per second. At first there was a sideways swing...
...some measure the impression is justified. Eighteen months ago his Overland Six introduced European designs into the U. S. motor car field. Last year his Willys-Knight Great Six, with Knight sleeve valves, extended the fashion. At the turn of this year came his "70" Willys-Knight Six, somewhat lighter, but of the same general design. Then two months ago the Overland "Whippet," smallest of U. S. cars, came on the market. When Henry Ford reduced his prices a month ago, (TIME, June 28) no one of his executives could be induced to admit the obvious facts-that his sales...