Inventive minds should now products ideas tor household and business laboursaving devices (remarks a- 1/ondon paper). Thousands of people have to <lo with loss than tho pro-war amount of assistance. Consequently shopkeepers are daily sieked by would-be buyers for all sorts of ingenious and helptul contrivances. Tho retailer turns to tho wholesaler, tho wholesaler to tho maker, and the maker advertises for the inventor of some device. There may bo great fame and a fortune in it. "Never could the producer of original mechanical idoas so readily market them and get a good, price for hie brain-work," said a producer'of trade "notions" recently. "Capital is ready for good suggestions. It is the idea-market that is dull. Mills and factories are being ©quipped with machines," said an authority ou machine-tools, "which are doing the work of five or six machines o: older days. Thero is a rich harvest for ideas."
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16507, 26 April 1919, Page 12
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16507, 26 April 1919, Page 12
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