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Training period for the 18 competitions will last until March 31. Although Friday evening's program will fellow the regular schedule, the production candidates will be running the show, while business and technical candidates will take over plug-writing and the controls...
...California's Applied Products Co. on a royalty deal (a minimum of $20,000 a year plus $2 for each machine sold in excess of 10,000). The machine, which has an adaptation of a powerful hydraulic pump previously used for cleaning airplane parts, needs no installation; just plug it into a socket and hook it onto the kitchen faucet...
...valuable is a Godfrey free plug on the air that manufacturers, on the off chance that he will mention them, deluge him with .merchandise ranging from buttermilk to uranium ore to elks. They remember that, on TV, he has often taken a pull at a Coke bottle when he might have been plugging his sponsored products. And they know that Godfrey's fooling around with a ukulele on the air pumped new life into an industry that had been dormant since the early 1930s. Said uke salesman Jack Loeb: "Sales went from nothing to higher than they had been...
...Every serviceman in the New England District as well as civilian College students had to report to the University switchboard. While there is nothing quite so glamorous in the way of public service these days, operators are often called on to do more than put the right plug in the right hole for many callers. Of people wanting information, contest enterers are the most demanding; they ply the Harvard operators with an infinite variety of obscure queries. And then there are those who just want to know where a street in Cambridge is, or, as in the case...
Lavender Gloves. Public education began in Denver on a hot August afternoon in 1859, when a strange figure in black broadcloth, a glossy plug hat and lavender gloves appeared driving a span of oxen down the dusty main street. The newcomer drove expertly, shouting his commands in Latin, until finally and inevitably he came to a stop outside Uncle Dick Wootton's saloon and general store. His first statement to the townsmen was in English, not Latin, though they would have understood it in any tongue. It was: "Set 'em up. The drinks...