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...Chandler, G. C. Dogle, Clarence Flashman, W. H. Gibson, M. A. Lamb, L. A. S. McCabe, S. C. Monroe, Wilfred Owen, R. C. Phillips, Edward Rollins, J. B. Russell, A. R. D. Sutton, R. J. Towne, A. C. Wolf, S. E. Ach, D. L. Bernstein, W. R. Boose, Abraham Cone, J. D. Fisher, W. K. Hayes, E. R. Heath, John Maler, W. R. Reed, C. J. Tannenbaum, A. J. Creidenberg, R. E. Eby, J. A. Goldberg, B. V. Jager, H. M. Lawn, W. P. McAdams, R. J. Makowsky, E. P. Morse, R. H. Paradise, E. J. Rogers, J. T. Sapienza...
...hundred expert oil wranglers, white-slickered, steel-helmeted, sought to stem the flow by capping it with a hurriedly forged 3,000-lb. steel cone known as a "Christmas tree." Many-valved, it was designed to shut down on the escaping oil little by little. But the white figures could remain near the huge yellow plumes of spurted oil only a few minutes at a time; the work progressed slowly. Only after a three-day struggle did they screw their giant nipple into place and throttle nature's deluge. Leading the labor was the well's owner, Fred...
...interior of the living eye-ball which could not otherwise be seen. In the first application they have been used almost exclusively to give useful vision to persons suffering from conical cornea, a disorder in which the front of the eye-ball takes the form of a cone. Such a defect renders the patient's vision practically useless and the trouble can not be corrected with the ordinary spectacle lens. In such cases, contact glasses restore fair vision for as long as the patient can wear them. This may be only half an hour per day, possibly longer...
...vaudeville acts he became a Manhattan headliner in the Vanities. In his house at Lake Hopatcong, N. J., resting on a silver standard, is a baseball which Babe Ruth has not autographed. On his private golf course is a green built in the shape of a cone so that any guest can make a hole in one. He is shy, likes speedboating, collects mementoes, is admired by stagehands...
Egyptian Brooders. Although the dynastic Egyptians lacked artificial light with which modern poulterers perform fake sunrises to make their hens lay overtime, they used incubators to hatch out eggs. The old time hatcheries were cone-shaped mud huts heated by burning chaff. An attendant always sat within to warn against temperature too hot or too cold. Of a clutch 95% hatched successfully. William D. Mann, U. S. assistant commercial attache at Cairo, found out about the ancient Egyptian brooders when he was seeking an Egyptian market for the latest type of U. S.-made incubators...