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Freight Shrinker. A freight-car Shrinker to cut cargo damage in railroad cars (last year American railroads paid more than $98 million in claims) was announced by New York Inventor Glenn F. Wilkes. The Shrinker is a movable steel bulkhead at each end of a freight car. As the cargo starts to shift in transit, the bulkhead automatically forces it back in place through a system of cogs and springs...
that yellow bulkhead...
Pollard's L-shaped dream house has a glass-walled living room with a view of lofty Mt. Tamalpais on one side and the incomparable San Francisco skyline on the other. Just outside is a bulkhead-type dock, flanked by a slip for Pollard's Penguin-class sailboat, in which he skims over the Belvedere lagoon...
...stocky teamster-pastor (who had been in jail three times in the late 19305, for burglary), told the court how he had been won over, despite his early hostility. Charles Henderson, a maintenance worker, was also affected by the services: "One night I seen a vision . . . right on the bulkhead there in the jail." As for denying prisoners their rights, said counsel for the evangelists: "They can put their coats over their heads if they don't want to listen...
...most out-standing facilities available to teach future Olympic champions. In addition to the exhibition pool described above, the building also contains one of the largest suspended swimming pools in the world. Used primarily for practice, this 167-foot stretch of water is divided by a movable bulkhead, which can be adjusted to make the pool fit any standard American or Metric course...