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...gold British sovereigns, one dated 1901, the other 1912, plinked to the mucky deck of the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (artiglio = talon) last week as she rode off Brest, France. The sovereigns were but a tender of what the next clutch of the Artiglio IPs five-clawed dredge was to raise from the "treasure" ship Egypt 400 ft. below. The dredge dipped, scrabbled, rose 15 tense minutes later with two gold bars and a scattering of sovereigns. The Italian crew went hysterical. "Gold! Gold!" they howled. They screamed, wept, embraced. Three years of painstaking, hazardous marine engineering...
...similar products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During the War it had large Government contracts for Army belts. A few months ago the company sold its business in suspenders, garters and other elastic webbings. The receivership for closely-held, 98-year-old Russell...
...most typical mystery play this reviewer remembers having seen. All the props that one usually connects with a mystery are brought on the stage some time during the evening. Ghosts, bloody knives, numerous pistol shots, screams, moving bookcases, mysterious and sinister hands that reach out from secret panels to clutch the heroine are all displayed one after another, accompanied by the horrified (or was it delighted?) screams of the teminine half of the audience...
...uniformed Japanese policeman No. 73 shouted: "Hold your head and go away!" A Mr. Swain also advised Mr. Robison that as the U. S. Trade Commissioner he ought not to use his fists. Mr. Robison got out his glasses again, put them on, entered his car, let in his clutch. Pantherlike, one of the armbanded Japanese sprang upon the running board, hit Mr. Robison a smashing blow in the face as he drove away amid Japanese guffaws...
Stewart-Warner Corp. exhibited a new brake system, as yet not in use on any but test cars. The principle is to use the momentum of the car to check the speed. On the Stewart-Warner model this operates mechanically with a clutch attached to the brake pedal. Frederick I. Libby, young automotive engineer of Bronxville, N. Y. is working on a similar brake operated by hydraulic pressure...