Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Italian salvage ship Artiglio, fitted with all the latest scientific inventions for deep-sea diving, began cruising about the spot fixed by Captain Hedbach, sounding the bottom methodically, inch by inch. They struck a ship, 400 ft. down. Rough sea held up operations for several days, then a steel diving shell was slung over the side, equipped with oxygen tanks, a telephone, inch-thick glass observation windows. Youngest of the Artiglio's divers, Alberto Bargellini, went down. Director of Operations Alberto Gianni hung breathlessly on the other end of the telephone. Tense minutes of waiting. Director...
...taut wire to the shaft, set it vibrating. Nearby they stretched another wire (not attached to the shaft) to the same pitch. So long as the tautness of the two vibrating wires remained the same, they gave the same note. When the steel shaft twisted a fraction of an inch, it stretched or loosened the attached wire immediately changing the pitch. This musical difference between the two wires the engineers could easily measure...
...startling thing had happened. There on the front page, in Cartoonist H. J. Tuthill's "The Bungle Family," was-not one little snake -but a long, fat, wriggling rattlesnake in bright green, yellow & red, in 15 different poses. When Mr. Bungle saw it he shouted in half-inch letters: "A SNAKE!" He then fought and wrestled gruesomely with it through four cartoon panels before it was revealed to be a dummy snake, the practical joke of another character in the strip...
Ralph Ince, cineman, trolling for sea bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital...
...across country. First company to do this was Standard Oil of New Jersey, which recently converted its 380-mi. crude oil pipe from Negley, Ohio to Bayonne, N. J., into a gasoline line. Most important of proposed gasoline pipe lines are: Magnolia Petroleum Co.'s go-mi, three-inch line from Luling, Tex. to San Antonio; Sun Oil Co.'s 500-mi. Susquehanna line from Marcus Hook, Pa. to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Akron; Phillips Petroleum Co.'s 800-mi. line from Texas Panhandle to St. Louis and Kansas City...