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Purpose of the trip was to demonstrate an invention that used charcoal instead of gasoline for fuel. By the time Dover was reached the charcoal burner, a five-foot stove that steamed and sizzled on the running board, had been abandoned. Colonel Christmas of the Indian Civil Service had organized the trip because he made a point of never returning to India over a route he had traveled before. Now his leave was almost up and delays drove him frantic. Absentminded, he once crawled under his car to work on it, fell sound asleep. He drove with fierce intensity, getting...
...seized the huge craft as enemy property, renamed her Leviathan, rebuilt her as a troop transport. In ten trips she carried 95,000 A. E. F. troops to France, brought 80,000 home. Awarded to the U. S. under the Versailles Treaty, she was reconditioned as an oil-burner in 1922 at a cost of $8,000,000. Returned to transatlantic passenger service in 1923 by the U. S. Shipping Board, she turned up huge losses, spent much of her time at her Hoboken pier...
President Conant lost no time this year in asking the University to call on him a Sunday afternoons at 17 Quincy Street; where he will probably brew tea in Pyrex beakers over a silver Bunsen burner. But the convivial graduate students who look forward to these wholesome meals have not as yet found the little invitations in the Crimson. This is not because President Conant has not tea in his pantry yet, but because he does not live at 17 Quincy Street. President Conant "will be glad to see all men who are students in the University," when the Cambridge...
...champagne and Chauvenet wines. Charles F. Bertelli, a Hearst European correspondent in Paris, rushed to Manhattan with a new wife and 17 exclusive agencies for little-known wines & liquors. He promptly organized Trans-Europa Corp. One of the founders of Hahn Department Stores, Eugene Greenhut, and Willard Karn, oil-burner salesman famed as a bridgeplayer, started National Distributors for- Distillers, Inc. to market through cigar-stores. A new firm called Stuart, Briton & Co. has Sandy Macnab Scotch whiskey. Scions of the Hotel McAlpin family have Smirnoff vodka and other liqueurs which they will make under patriarchal Vladimir Smirnoff...
...Roosevelt "partnership." And last week the following industries, through their trade associations, were swinging into line: Southern Pine Manufacturers, National Retail Dry Goods Association, Merchants Ladies' Garment Association, Musical Merchandise Industry, Marketing Devices Industry, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Anthracite Institute, American Oil Burner Association...