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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keokuk, la., a vast power dam sprawls across the Mississippi River. Before it was built, many an engineer scratched his head ruefully, doubted that it could be done because of the vagaries of the banks of the Father of Waters...
...Niagara's Horseshoe Falls, there is an enormous power plant. Before it was built, engineers had gasped at the thought of such a thing...
...European War to the formation of the Yale Naval Aviation Unit, which performed heroic service later both in matters of organization and of actual combat, and of which Ralph D. Paine had just completed a history before his death. Into this he poured enthusiasm, time and money. He built it up to a point of great usefulness and efficiency. Then, when he was taking his own flying tests at Huntington, L. I., in 1917, his machine crashed and he was terribly injured. His recovery was uncertain and slow; but he rallied, and, with heroic persistence, went on with his advisory...
Last week despatches from London announced that Dr. Hartman had a perfected "diving bell," was off with seven fellow-scientists and a secretary, for test drops to the bottom of the Mediterranean. The Krupp works at Essen had built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15,000 ft., equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable...
Hobbs today occupies in the cricket world a rather higher position than does Babe Ruth in baseball. He is 42, tall, fair, handsome, well-built. During the War he served in the Royal Air Force and helped to win many a cricket victory for that corps...