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...foresight of Frederick Samuel Fish who had entered the firm in 1891. Son-in-law of one of the five Studebaker brothers who joined in the business, Mr. Fish, 80, is now chairman of the company. White's entrance into transportation came at about the same time. First roller skates were added to sewing machines, then bicycles. The company was profitable, frugal Thomas White often saying that a man loses value if he is paid more than $5,000 a year "because he spends all his time thinking about how to invest it." In 1899 Founder White and his three...
...Roller on Tariff. Senator Barkley log-rolled a tariff on coal into the new Tax bill (TIME, May 30). Nevertheless as party keynoter he excoriated what he called the Hoover-Grundy Tariff Act, forced through by a "congregation of harpies" and signed by the President "with an apology...
...thousand mannered comedies. He knows how to express utter satisfaction, when he learns of his wife's defections, by nibbling on an apple core. She, Joan Marsh, has an extraordinary petulance. When asked if there is anything in the world she really likes, she replies: "Yes. The roller-coaster at Coney Island...
...pendence of gout and rheumatism, among other ailments, on weather conditions seem related to the electric charge, or ion con tent, of the air. In an empty, well-ventilated room the ionization is the same as outdoors, but falls off rapidly in crowded rooms. Dr. Lewis Richard Roller described a machine to count the ions in a room, another to bring the ions up to a healthy ratio. Unless there is something in nature beyond human perception, the chemical engineers at Schenectady see no reason why, with artificial-sun lamps, air conditioners and an ionizer, living in a dungeon would...
...Fair everything goes better than fairly well. Melissa sweeps the pickle show, Blue Boy sweeps the hogs. But Margy and Wayne are the real winners. On a roller-coaster Margy meets Pat, a journalist. Besides general information she learns a lot about love from him. Wayne receives a similar initiation from Emily, whose father, a horsy gentleman, follows the Fairs. Gently, and with no damage done, Emily seduces Wayne, but refuses to marry him when he proposes. She has merely given him, as Pat has given Margy, a free and freeing lesson in the art of love...