MANAGEMENT: Young Tom Saffady

Tom Saffady is a broad-shouldered, slim-hipped Detroiter with the somber, brooding eyes of a musician and the calloused but sensitive hands of a good mechanic. In the last five years, his mechanic's hands have tinkered out 75 inventions such as:

¶ A plastic beer-bottle cap.

¶ An electric refrigerator run by radio tubes, instead of chemicals.

¶ A housewives' butter slicer run by a flashlight battery.

¶ A special head for gasoline motors which increases horsepower enormously.

¶ A complicated device for measuring the smoothness of metal surfaces, vital in metal fabricating, which...

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