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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge took a diamond and platinum brooch 1½ in. by 3½ in. on a 22-in. diamond and platinum chain, the whole containing nearly 400 diamonds (largest stone, five carats) made by Black, Starr & Frost; also a pink leather book containing the names of the lady admirers who presented the brooch (duplicate filed in the secret archives of the State Department) ; a large silver bowl and candlesticks presented by Lady Howard on behalf of the Diplomatic Corps, as wedding gifts for John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull; a check for $100,000 contributed to the endowment of Clarke School...
Every Administration needs an expert on patronage. Mr. Brown will serve Mr. Hoover in this capacity, the Post Office being the largest job-pasture in the Government (365,000 workers). Since President Hoover has evinced an interest in Government reorganization, perhaps the Brown Plan of 1921 will emerge from its pigeonhole. Otherwise, and perhaps even so, Mr. Brown may be counted on as a quiet yes-peg with a political point...
...typewriter was built in China by the Commercial Press, the largest printing establishment in the far East. It is the result of steady improvement since its invention in 1919, though it is not yet entirely efficient. A capable operator can write at the rate of 1000 characters an hour, which seems slow in comparison with the speed of an American machine. This is, however, twice the speed with which one can print Chinese by hand. Furthermore, it is a greater speed than one thinks, because most Chinese words consist of only one or two characters, whereas English words consist...
...problems raised in constructing increasingly large water wheel and turbo-generators are for the most part mechanical," declared Morris Stone '23 research engineer for the Westinghouse Company, in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "Seven years ago the largest generator was capable of producing only 20,000 kilowatts; but recently a 95,000 kilowatt generator has been built and at present one is under construction which will produce 160,000 kilowatts. In increasing the size of these generators, the electrical companies have been facing mechanical rather than electrical difficulties...
...proof is constantly turning up that the industry one of the half dozen largest in the country is still far from a condition of stabilization...