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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Danny Daniels had lined up his four comrades, executed them one by one, then committed suicide. Most of the last hostage guards escaped unhurt. Total casualties: 5 dead convicts, 7 dead guards, 3 badly wounded guards, 7 other wounded including Warden Crawford whose head was grazed by a slug. Eight inquiries were started into the origin of the revolt. In 1924 the National Association for Penal Information pronounced the Canon City Penitentiary "the worst in the country" for brutality and repression...
...trouping he has acquired a mellow patina which enhances his interpretation of one not unlike himself in wisdom and sweetness of age. Sitting in his royally red chair, he pokes with his cane and his innuendos, rumbles and whispers, enchants his family with the great white droop of his head, the flash of his cavernous eyes. In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him. The children are never seen except as his nervous fingers betray their insuperability...
...knees, and he would dandle them up and down. For theatrical reasons he was obliged to pretend being his mother's young brother, to him and her a distasteful hypocrisy. Engineering he studied at Paris's College of Bridges & Highways (where he graduated at the head of his class with honors) and at the University of Illinois (Illinois gave him his Civil Engineer de gree) then he hastened to Cracow, Poland, his birthplace, to marry Felicie Benda, childhood friend. As the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, he opened Chicago offices as a consulting engineer. Chicago...
...determined in each case by State Oil and Gas Supervisor R. D. Bush. Waste can be limited by "recycling" the gas into the ground, thereby sustaining the pressure and guaranteeing a long, steady but comparatively slow flow of oil; by capturing the gas and extracting its casing head gasoline contents; by selling the gas to public utility companies. Large companies, like Standard Oil Co. of California, have a number of years engaged in "recycling" and in reclaiming casing-head gasoline. Recently some of them, like Standard of California, have contracted to supply natural gas to public utilities for distribution instead...
...said, of gratitude. From English technologists he received the information needed to perfect his first photographic films. The present head of the Eastman Kodak Co. research laboratories is Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, English-born, London-educated...