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Turning Fox. Ousted from his film company, hounded by lawsuits, pop-eyed William Fox has lain low on his Long Island estate ever since the Senate Banking & Currency Committee tried unsuccessfully to put him on the witness stand to unsnarl his jumbled stock dealings (TIME, June 27, et seq) Not in his recent rôle of sued but as suer Mr. Fox made news last week when the first of his major suits against the makers and users of sound film reproduction equipment for alleged infringement of patents (U. S. rights to which Mr. Fox personally acquired from...
...been known to die from the poisoning, but no one has been known to recover from the paralysis, said Dr. Maurice Isador Smith last week. Dr. Smith, 45, is the National Institute of Health investigator who two years ago traced the widespread "ginger jake" paralysis to tri-ortho-cresyl-phosphate adulteration. (Manufacturers and vendors have been jailed.) His information about Europe's poisoned apiol was the first revelation to U. S. womanhood of danger in that direction...
...press of a button by Governor Rolph in California, a plane despatcher at Newark Airport, N. J. waved his red flag one night last week at a Ford tri-motor, just christened The Comet. (Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh who had been expected to act as despatcher watched from the background.) Pilot Robert Le Roy raced his idling motors, taxied across the floodlit field; The Comet roared up into the western night. Next evening it alighted in Los Angeles...
...aircraft plant at Dearborn, Mich, is shut down except for repair work on planes now in operation. From that plant, which produced 300 tri-motors at $50,000 each for the past five years, only four new ships have emerged since Jan. 1. Prospects for new orders were slim because 1) airline expansion has ceased at least for the present; 2) big operators are abandoning Fords in favor of planes made by allied builders; 3) some operators believe that the Ford, basically unchanged since 1927, is obsolete...
...build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland to Key West. New York's crafty Mayor Walker prepared for a grandstand demand for R. F. C. funds to finish his $30,000,000 Tri-Borough Bridge (Manhattan-Queens-Bronx...