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After passing through a "hair-catcher" which will pick up any lint from bathing suits, the water will be heated to between 72 and 75 degrees. It next runs through two coagulant pots, of soda ash and alum. which prevent undue acidity. The great work of filtration is done by a tank containing 27 tons of graded Cape May, New Jersey sand, through which the water will seep. Before entering the pool it will be impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results can easily be tested by comparing a test-tube full of water with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course of Water Passing Through New Swimming Pool is Traced--Undergoes Complete Chemical Treatment | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

...beautiful trash basket or refuse receptacle to be presented to the city for placing at strategic points about the streets. Stoutly Acting Chairman Edward Henry Lewinski Corwin of the Committee of Twenty denied the imputation of New York papers that the contest was for the purpose of creating the Ash Can Beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Receptacle | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...appellation 'Ash Can Beauty Contest' " said he severely, "is not only facetious but fallacious insomuch as the contest is for a litter basket and not an ash can. . . . The litter basket is to be the receptacle for paper wrappers, newspapers, and other small discarded articles. . . . The purpose of the ash can is well known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Receptacle | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most of his life, he is now subsidized by an anonymous Englishwoman. He dresses neatly, always wears green ties, sports heavy rings on his fingers, carries an ash-plant cane which he twirls and twirls. Timid, he fears dogs and thunderstorms, likes cats; a short "beard covers the scar where a dog bit him 43 years ago. He has very small feet, of which he is proud. Well-known to newspapermen, Author Joyce has never been interviewed. (Author Djuna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscopic Recamera | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...Gazette quarrel was settled by compromise last week. To discipline the recalcitrant Press, the storekeepers considered publishing their own Shopping News. But merchants know that such a paper, now found upon the doormats of Washington, Cleveland and other cities, makes dull reading for housewives, is frequently hurled into the ash can by husbands. And the Press, last week, still refused to budge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Advertising Strike | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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