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...Hertford youth, victim of a ghastly practical joke which nearly cost him his life, was released from the Elizabeth City Hospital Sunday morning. Young Nixon was brought to the hospital last week in a frightful condition from the effects of a blast of air from a powerful air compressor injected into his interior by a playmate. The nozzle of the air hose was thrust into the posterior of the youth and the air blast literally blew the contents of his bowels up and through his mouth and nostrils. He was brought to the hospital with his intestines inflated and paralyzed...
Died. William Goodman, 52, inventor-engineer, Vice President of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; in Manhattan, after a mastoid operation. The double-action Diesel engine which the U. S. Shipping Board has lately adopted as standard equipment for many of its ships, and the feather valve air compressor, were developed under his supervision...
...machine is sulphur dioxide. The "out" to this material has always consisted of the fact that it quickly corrodes parts with which it comes into contact. Evidently the ingenious "G. E." engineers have overcome this, presumably by her metically sealing the equipment, including its motor, compressor and all other moving parts. Once or twice a month the machine will have to be shut down until the frost accumulated on its brine tank can melt...
...Vienna, there exists (as reported by the Compressed Air Magazine, Manhattan) a benzene-driven ice-wagon equipped with a vertical compressor behind the chauffeur's seat for making ice, by the motor's power, between and at customers' doors...
...First, Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget, compressor of "appropriations, trimmer of estimates, saver of cents and of centimillions, propounded the now old story of the Federal Budget and the economies which it has wrought. He pointed out that, in 1921 (the last pre-budget year), the U. S. Government spent over $5,000,000,000 and that today it is spending about $3,000,000,000 a year-an annual saving of more than...