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...ticket offices at the H. A. A. will remain open until 5 o'clock tomorrow evening to receive applications for all three events. Demands for tickets have already been coming in with a rush, and seem due to exhaust at an early date the number of seats available. For the crew race, there will be less than 3000 seats on the two special trains chartered by the H. A. A.; and for the baseball game, in spite of the fact that stands are now being erected to seat an additional 3000, the total seating capacity of the Soldiers Field bleachers...
...Liberty Tunnels, Pittsburgh (TIME, Feb. 4), many persons were overcome on account of the high concentration of CO attendant upon auto congestion in a streetcar strike. Last Summer, Dr. Yandell Henderson, Professor of Applied Physiology at Yale University, suggested as a partial solution that automobile exhausts be extended from the horizontal position at the level of the axle to a vertical one discharging like a chimney at the height of seven or eight feet. He conducted extensive experiments on Fifth Avenue, New York, and other motor-congested highways, proved that CO, even when not so dense as to cause prostration...
When the speakers did not exhaust their allotted time they yielded back the remainder of the time...
...feet below at the same speed of 90 miles an hour. The fuel was passed through a 40-foot steel wire-incased rubber hose into the tank of the lower plane, and so perfect was the maneuver that not a drop of gasoline was scattered- and gasoline on hot exhaust pipes might spell disaster. The experiment was carried out in preparation for an attempt by Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richters to beat all endurance records by a continuous flght of four days and nights. Two such attempts have failed, though one flight lasted 24 hours, but Smith...
...want to be a robot for two hours a day so that the remainder of the day I can be G. B. S. Give me the most mechanical job you can find. Send me into those soul killing occupations which are always denouncing, so that I do not exhaust my intellect...