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...across. A small motor turned it into a 10-m. p. h. wind during last week's demonstration. The force developed was four ton. It bent 2 in. by 6 in. steel bars. If the tower were on a truck, where it will ultimately be mounted, the four-ton force would turn the truck wheels. The turning wheels would operate an electrical generator...
...Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree. Out of the automobile, unhurt, stepped its driver, hulking Author Theodore Dreiser...