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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patents are obtainable on the new Packard Diesel type airplane motor. We do not know the source of your information but the fact is that while the Diesel engine principle is very old, many problems had to be solved before a suitably light Diesel type motor could be built for aircraft use. These problems were solved by us and in many instances real inventions resulted. Therefore, instead of no patents being obtain able, this Packard engine will be very well protected by patents and there is every reason to believe that we will have real patent control of its many...
...Central Park has stood for nearly 60 years a sprawly rustic building known as the Casino. Last week the Casino appeared likely to become an issue in New York City politics-a class war issue between Democracy and Aristocracy. The Casino belongs to the city. It was built as an eating place to offset, in a measure, the litter caused by basket parties on the lawns. Recently the city leased the place to a $500,000 private corporation which undertook to make it a "place for the fashionable and fastidious." The rental was $8,500 per year. The corporation sold...
...explorers and geologists pointed out that there was good reason to believe that the Aztecs used and exploited petroleum. The immense, ornate 17th Century cathedral was built on the site of the great sacrificial pyramid destroyed by Cortez in 1521. New evidence points to the fact that the pyramid had covered a primitive oil well. While the scientists talked and planned, pious Mexicans visioned in shocked silence the desecration of one of America's oldest and holiest shrines...
Arthur P. Davis, Oakland, Calif., consulting engineer (he built famed Roosevelt Dam) for irrigation projects in Soviet Central Asia...
Hugh L. Cooper & Co., Manhattan consulting engineers (they built famed Muscle Shoals plants), a 100 million dollar hydro-electric power plant in the Ukraine. When completed, this power plant will be the world's largest...