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...third time in four years the voters of Portsmouth, Ohio defeated a proposal to operate their own electric facilities. Youngstown, Ohio voted against a bond issue which would have provided a municipally-owned distributing system. So did San Francisco. Burlington and Bordentown, N. J., Atlanta, Ind. and Tyrone, Pa. decided against municipal operation of their lighting systems...
Hall of States 12-15,000,000 General Motors 10,000,000 Firestone 10,000,000 Westinghouse 5,000,000 TIME & FORTUNE Building 2,000,000 Horticultural exhibit 1,500,000 Royal Scot 1,250,000 Burlington train...
...rotor such as carried Anton Flettner's sailing vessel Baden-Baden from Hamburg to Manhattan (TIME, May 24, 1926) and lifted Harold Elstner Talbott Jr.'s hydroplane from Long Island waters in 1930. The utilitarians gave Designer Madaras $104,000 to build a demonstration rotor at West Burlington, N. J. Last week he showed them that it works...
...West Burlington tower is 90 ft. high, 22.2 ft. across. A small motor turned it into a 10-m. p. h. wind during last week's demonstration. The force developed was four ton. It bent 2 in. by 6 in. steel bars. If the tower were on a truck, where it will ultimately be mounted, the four-ton force would turn the truck wheels. The turning wheels would operate an electrical generator...
...climbed into the gondola, waved, sealed himself in, and was off into the moonlit sky. Searchlights fingered the balloon as it floated up and westward over the Loop. After ten minutes it ceased to rise. Then it began to fall. Down, down it came, skimming the sheds in the Burlington & Quincy Railroad yards at 14th & Canal Streets. Plunk!-it landed on the tracks, barely missing the head of a yardman and scaring him out of his wits. In a few minutes a crowd of thousands jammed the yards. "Get those cigarets away!" shouted Commander Settle, who had pulled the ripcord...