The Hardin tribune-herald., 1947-07-03

profitable businesses helping
the American woman stay
young, or at least continue to
look young. Now comes Dr..
George Lawton, an industrial
psychologist, with a book for
American business men on how
to age successfully. His formu-
la: variety of interests and
activities. DR.. Lawton points to
Howard Hughes, famed flyer,
industrialist and movie produc-
er as a notable example of a
business man who will be for
ever young in outlook and ac-
complishment. This is because
of Hughes diversity of inter-
ests and his ability to take
risks for the sake of construct
i've achievement. Hughes, now
Al, produces movies, manufact-
ures rockbits for worldwide oil
drilling, designs and builds
planes, and invents safety de-
vices for aircraft. DR.. LaWton's
theories coincide with the re-
cent analysis of William Bent
on, assistant secretary of state.
| Said Benton: "A man ought to
change jobs every 10 years. He
runs out of ideas and begins to
rust if he doesn't" Do you
I agree?
THINGS TO COME all
purpose high temperature heat
ing unit that can perform such
a variety of jobs as singeing
fowl, browning casserole dishes,
removing paint or defrosting
the refrigerator, has been de-
veloped by Detroit manufact-
urer . "A magnetic brush-off
is offered in new plastic
Whiskbroom which creates it's
own magnetism as it Whisks.
Junior auto passengers and
their parents may feel easier
with a new safety rubber-blad-
! ed electric fan for passenger
cars. For repeat home re-
cording requests there's a new
"Playgan" device which auto
matically repeats the playing OF
a single phonograph record. {.
An aerial toy that automatic
ally discharges tiny para
chute for airborne flights OF
100 feet has been developed by
a New York firm. Designed
to cut down night driving
hazards, new street lighting
system said to direct 20 per
cent more light to the road
surface has been developed by
Westinghouse Electric Corp. :.
A new coin operated fruit
vending machine offers four
different types of cold fruit at
a price ranging from l cent to
10 cents and gives you back
your change as well. Count :
ing the cards or large numbers
of paper sheets is speeded up
with newly developed elec-
tronic counter which counts
sheets or cards at rates as high
as 1000 a second.
PRECISION CAREERS This
years bumper crop of college
engineering graduates are ad-
vised to look for careers and
fame by developing and i'm
proving new precision meaSur :
ing methods needed in manu-
facture of the new and finer
products, instruments and ap-
pliances of today and tomor-
row. Precision manufacturers
are Extremely interested" in
development of super-sensitive
gauges and devices capable of
measuring differences down to
! and below ne-millionth of an
inch, says DR.. Haakon Styri,
research director of SKF In
! dustries, Inc, ball and roller
bearing firm. New types of
gauges are required in many
mass production industries to
make fast an accurate meas
urements of parts that must fit
snugly in assemblies of house.
hold appliances, precision in
Struments and many other pro-
ducts, DR.. Styri said.
BITS O. BUSINESS. IA slight
drop in demand for consumer
plastic items is helping to cor
rect most general shortages
within the industry. Cut
price publicity on retail items
has had the effect of braking
price advances on numerous
basic industrial commodities.
Effective measures for Europ-
can reconstruction and foreign
trade development have now
become the central issue upon
which business forecasts are
hinged, says C. F. Hughes
business editor of the New
York Times. There's nc
shortage of gas-the shortages
exist rather In steel, pipe and
tin plate-the materials needed
by utilities to get it to the