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TV Checking. The Glyn, Mills bank in London, England last week began checking signatures on bank checks via television. During World War II the bank's records were moved to Osterley Park, ten miles outside London; the bank does not now have enough room in London to move all the records back. So to check a signature or any record, a clerk in Osterley Park simply holds the original in front of a TV camera and it appears on a small screen on the desk of a bank official in London.

White Tires. A white rubber paint with which car owners can make their own "white wall" tires in 20 minutes was put on the market by Chicago's Lowenthal Manufacturing Co.The manufacturer says the white walls will last as long as the tires. The do-it-yourself kit contains one bottle of cleaner to prepare the tire surface and enough liquid rubber to paint five tires. Cost: $2.98.

Bottleneck Stopper. One of the chief bottlenecks of aircraft production, the making of turbine blades for jet engines, may be solved by a new machine developed by England's Omes, Ltd. Already in operation at the Utica (N.Y.) Drop Forge & Tool Corp., the machine precision-forges blades in half the time and at half the cost of present methods. Price: $7,500.

Central Dictation. Connecticut's Gray Manufacturing Co., which invented the pay telephone in 1888, announced a new dictation device for office use. Instead of an individual machine that must be moved from office to office, the "PhonAudograph" is a central recording device connected through individual private wires to as many offices as need the service. The user merely picks up his special telephone, presses one button when talking, another when he wants a playback. For a correction, he presses a third button; a fourth button ends the transcription.

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