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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hose: Attached within 24 hours to breather fittings integral with hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Italian | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Married. Zona Gale, 53, famed playwright (Miss Lulu Belt, 1920), novelist (Preface to a Life, 1926) and short story-writer (Yellow Gentians and Blue, 1927); to William L. Breese, 63, wealthy hose manufacturer; at Portage, Wis., her birthplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Charles Spencer Chaplin, funnyman, picked up a garden hose, squirted it. He was serious. He was helping to fight a fire at the American-Russian Eagle Club in Hollywood, Calif. His efforts were stopped when an explosion of leaking gas wrecked the building and injured eight people. Among those present and unhurt were Jack Dempsey & wife (Estelle Taylor), Richard Dix, Renee Adoree, John McCormick & wife (Colleen Moore), Marquis de la Falaise (husband of Gloria Swanson). The owner of the nightclub, Theodore Lodiginsky, 56, onetime Russian general, was seriously injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Firemen tried a hose, could not swamp student ardor. Reluctantly, at last, the police opened fire upon the mob, killing, wounding, restoring order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Down with Mussolini! | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...four years. The Board of Transportation at any rate is eager to do its immediate utmost. Said deputy chief engineer Colonel John R. Slattery: ". . . Two methods of preventing trouble from this source have been approved. They are the use of gas masks and the carrying of an extra hose line with which to wet down the drilling surface. The men dislike using either, however, because the gas mask is uncomfortable and the hose line means extra work." South Africa has devised the best remedy. A vacuum pumping system suctions the dust away from the drill point, leaving the air safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Silicosis | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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