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...suite, and that on returning to see his old diggings the next year he found that as a room in Winthrop House it now cost $440. Looking around carefully for improvements he found a new hot water tap on the tub, a new binge on the door, a stronger bulb in the chandelier--nothing more, nothing less...
...electrically and fed through a loudspeaker into a reverberation chamber filled with gas. Some of the sound is absorbed by the walls instead of by the gas, but this is calculated and discounted. The sound is picked up by a microphone, amplified, converted into electric current which causes a bulb to glow. If the sound has decayed beyond a certain level the current produced is insufficient to light the bulb. The time is measured between the cessation of tone production and the point in decay at which there is just enough current to cause the glowing of the bulb...
...near the Pennsylvania oil fields, quit school to go into refining. For Texaco he helped develop the famed Holmes-Manley gasoline cracking process, helped push its distribution into 51 foreign lands and into all 48 States (more than any U. S. oil company). Now 59, short, stocky, bulb-nosed Ralph Holmes is known chiefly as a refining man and a bear for work. After Mr. Holmes was boosted into the presidency (by the Laphams), he saw to it that his $500,000,000 company was run on Holmes ideas. Last spring he even edited an issue of the Texaco Star...
While Messina waved a revolver. Senator Long charged Photographer Williams, managed to break the flashlight bulb on his camera. Fists doubled, he turned on the Times-Picayune's Reporter Samuel Lang. Quick-witted, the reporter called out: "Get a picture of Messina with his gun out!" Hastily the bodyguard pocketed his gun, fled from sight. Then Reporter Lang challenged : "Come on and hit me if you want to, Senator, your gunman's gone now." Senator Long stopped. looked around, dropped his hands. "I don't want to hit you," he snarled and ran aboard the Crescent Limited...
While Messina waved a revolver. Senator Long charged Photographer Williams, managed to break the flashlight bulb on his camera. Fists doubled, he turned on the Times-Picayune's Reporter Samuel Lang. Quick-witted, the reporter called out: "Get a picture of Messina with his gun out!" Hastily the bodyguard pocketed his gun, fled from sight. Then Reporter Lang challenged : "Come on and hit me if you want to, Senator, your gunman's gone now." Senator Long stopped. looked around, dropped his hands. "I don't want to hit you," he snarled and ran aboard the Crescent Limited...