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...babyfaced, 26-year-old Tommie Bartlett has become the guiding star of two of the cutest, corniest radio programs in the U. S. Known as Meet the Missus and The Missus Goes to Market, the Bartlett shows are broadcast from recordings each morning except Sunday over station WBBM, potently plug the virtues of Kitchen Klenzer, Big Jack Soap, Automatic Soap Flakes. Last week, in a lather of success, Tommie Bartlett was airing his performances under a new contract, which binds him to Fitzpatrick Bros., his sponsors, for the fifth consecutive year...
...Ingalls will have to build many more ships to make good its boast that its new methods will revolutionize U. S. shipbuilding. In contrast with the machine-gun clamor of most shipyards, Pascagoula's noises are a sibilant hiss. Biggest plug for welding is the fact that one welder can do the job of a four-man riveting team-a big saving in labor (40% of shipyard cost). Ingalls welds complete stern assemblies, bow sections, etc. up to 75 tons on platforms in the yard, swings them into place with big gantry cranes. It reverses old-line shipbuilding techniques...
First new issue to suffer was Morgan Stanley's $75,000,000 of U. S. Steel debentures, which came out the second day of the bear market. Syndicate members were still holding almost 10% of the issue after four days. Next week Morgan Stanley pulled the price plug from under the market, freed dealers to sell the last $1,390,000 at any price they could get. Same week, Montgomery Ward postponed a $31,000,000 offering of common stock sine...
...chatted away for six months, was just about ready to turn his time over to soap operas when Golden State Creamery signed up for two weeks, ended by staying 20 months. He now has a second program, Sunrise Salute, 24 accounts each paying $275 a week for one plug daily...
...Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.-which branched out into batteries, plastics, steel parts, service stations, cotton mills-announced development of a new automobile spark plug that provides better ignition, quicker starts for cold motors. The plug has electrodes coated with polonium, a radioactive element discovered by the late great Marie Curie (and named for her native Poland). The polonium shoots a steady stream of subatomic particles which ionize (electrify) the air in the spark gap, make it a better conductor when the spark jumps...