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...traditional house is an artificed cave. The traditional bathtub is an artificed pool. Buckminster Fuller has replaced these "feudal and finite" properties with what he calls "services." Dwellers in the dymaxion house will bathe with an airpressure hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap, in a compressed fog over their skin. Little water, no bathtub, no faucets or sinks, will be needed. Toilets will be dry, a machine converting sewage into methane gas to provide the house's light and power. Air will be conditioned, making bedclothes unnecessary. All machinery will fit into the central duraluminum mast...
...watched impassively. "Let them fight it out," said he. "That's the only way they'll get used to each other." At length Beelzebub crawled off into a corner of the cage, his head bloody & swollen. Dr. Ditmars fed him a six-foot gopher snake, turned a hose on his conqueror...
...developed in chemistry. New product is "glyptal," a flexible material which /. G. E. Wright declared is better than rubber or leather for printing machine rollers. It can be used for lithographic rolls and blankets, oil-proof gaskets, floor coverings, special sheetings for the balloonets of dirigibles, gasoline and oil hose, motor-mountings, tooth brushes...
...lest the men wreck the train or kill themselves, ordered the train not to leave the yards. Then the marchers tried strategy. They deployed to Caseyville, eight miles away, waited until a string of 30 cars started to climb a steep grade there. Soaped rails and a cut air hose stalled the train, of which the marchers took informal possession. Ice melted from valuable perishable freight while railroad and county police argued with the determined mob. After 24 hours during which the railroad not only did not move 'its stranded cars but virtually ceased freight operations eastward over...
...fire, Col. Kluge pressed forward to get a good look. A fire hose burst loose from its hydrant, whipped around, caught Col. Kluge in the back of the skull with its metal coupling, killed...