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...Century and has been president for the last 30 years. A conservative. Vandyke-bearded gentleman of a very old business school, Sir Douglas never used to publish any annual report at all. If a stockholder wanted to find out how his company was doing, he had to take pad & pencil to the meeting where the report was read-usually so rapidly that no one could understand it. From Sir Douglas' grudging remarks, a stockholder usually gathered the impression that, what with rising taxes and general social unrest, the outlook for the sewing machine business was practically hopeless...
...Sweet pulled on his operating gloves, Warden Lawes, under a brilliant, shadowless box light, felt a nurse swabbing the sore thigh with iodine. Another swung a table of instruments handy. A Negro artist serving a life sentence stepped up on a stool near the operating table. He had pad and pencil to picture the entire operation. Dr. Sweet jabbed a local anesthetic into Warden Lawes's leg. The Warden winced. The Surgeon sliced. The Warden felt nothing. The Surgeon clamped blood vessels, sliced some more, reached a fibrous capsule which enclosed the "tumor...
...American regards itself as the U. S. merchant marine of the air. By agreement with domestic transport operators it stays outside the U. S. proper while they stay in. Pan American goes where foreign trade is, or where it can be developed. It carries the sample case, the estimate pad, the order book, the spare part. It gets heavy patronage from U. S. merchants in Brazil and Argentina, where Germany and France formerly enjoyed an enormous advantage by virtue of their seven-day shipments of merchandise and documents from Berlin and Paris, a schedule now equalled...
Expert fingerprinters held a party in Manhattan last week to observe a new, clean method of performing their job. The standard system requires the subject to smudge his thumbs and fingers with printers' ink. messy and hard to remove. The new method utilizes a pad impregnated with a colorless, nonpoisonous chemical compound and a special paper sensitive to that compound. When the subject presses his digits upon the pad, then upon the paper, his prints immediately appear with photographic clarity, his fingers remain clean, less suggestive of wrongdoing...
Joseph Arthur Faurot, 59 and now retired from the New York City police force where in 1906 he introduced the standard system of fingerprint classification, invented the new clean fingerprinting. Dr. William Heinecke, Manhattan chemist, developed the chemical details. They hope to make money from sales of the pad and paper, for U. S. police and jailers alone fingerprint some 3,000 new prisoners daily, and by no means all finger-printing is criminological. Soldiers, sailors and Marines have their prints made routinely; also all Federal and many civil service employes. One of every 20 applicants for Federal service...