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...Compressed air is a ubiquitous tool in industry and transportation. Last fortnight a 35-year-old businessman of Phoenix, Ariz., L. V. Jones, convinced scientists at California Institute of Technology that he had found a way of compressing air more efficiently and cheaply than ever before. In practice, the compression of air generates heat which must be drawn off by water jackets. In the Jones device, there are no water jackets. The heat of the compressed air is removed by circulating oil and returned to the pump where it furnishes accessory driving energy. The same principle, Mr. Jones declared last...
Next he turned up as chief owner of Phoenix Securities Corp., whose president, Philip De Ronde, became a crony. Half-a-dozen other investment trusts landed in his pocket, including General Investment Corp.; another crony, Ernest B. Warriner, became General's president. Truster Groves used his associates to put over his deals, used one trust to buy another. The involved nature of these deals inspired one of his directors to write this spicy note: "We may seem (to you) unduly sensitive to public, or rather informed financial opinion. The reason is that those who disregarded this opinion seem...
...Phoenix Securities not included...
...speaker was a dapper 16-year-old from Phoenix, Ariz, with wavy hair not unlike that of National Republican Chairman John Hamilton. His name: John Janson. He was speaking last week in the small ballroom of Washington's famed Willard Hotel, competing in the finals of a national oratorical contest for which Mr. Hamilton's committee had put up $15,000 in regional and main prizes. Young Orator Janson's platform manner was prodigiously polished for a junior high school freshman. His words had an authentic Republican ring...
Rising from its ashes like the Phoenix of antique fame, the Classical Club meets tonight at 8:15 o'clock in Leverett's Junior Common Room, to hold tryouts for Aristophanes comedy "The Birds," which it will present in Greek in early next spring...