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...directions. But few of these are ever produced. Still fewer find their way into the hearts of the listening multitude and into the permanent repertoires of the great companies. Nevertheless, the industry goes on unchecked, in spite of the tears and tribulations that inevitably follow. Here follows a very partial list of hopeful efforts going on at the present time...
...study of American farming is, however, strangely partial. It leaves out of all account what the farmer earned during 1915-1920, under very high prices for farm produce and reasonable labor and other costs. It omits all his profits from land speculation, except to charge their resultant losses against 1920-1922 earnings. Nor does it dwell upon present high prices for grain and cotton...
...Mayor of the biggest city in the world is a partial illiterate. What he must have meant here was "championing...
...danger. Only a fortnight ago, in the new Liberty Tunnels, Pittsburgh (TIME, Feb. 4), many persons were overcome on account of the high concentration of CO attendant upon auto congestion in a streetcar strike. Last Summer, Dr. Yandell Henderson, Professor of Applied Physiology at Yale University, suggested as a partial solution that automobile exhausts be extended from the horizontal position at the level of the axle to a vertical one discharging like a chimney at the height of seven or eight feet. He conducted extensive experiments on Fifth Avenue, New York, and other motor-congested highways, proved that CO, even...
Nikola Tesla, Professor Bergen Davis, Columbia physicist, and other American scientists have been working on similar projects, and believe Grindell-Matthews' method thoroughly feasible. Practical aviators are inclined to scoff at the idea, but a number of such devices have been developed with partial success. The Britisher's invention will be offered to the British Government first, but, if not accepted, then to other nations. The French and German experimenters have not yet reached the efficiency of the Englishman's machine. It can also be used against infantry, either to kill or disable...