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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steel? Engineers of the General Electric Company are designing the largest alternating current motor for steel mill use ever made in the U. S. A. Erected at the River Rouge plant of the Ford company, it will develop 8,000 horsepower with a speed of 240 revolutions per minute. It will drive a "blooming" mill, where installations are now being made for the manufacture of steel. Ultimately, they say, the plant will manufacture all the steel Ford...
...when mechanics had to swing a propeller painfully and dangerously and many times. Passengers are partially enclosed and protected from wind and rain, yet have a magnificent view. The inside of the cabin is like the inside of a high-class automobile. Every detail of control, seating and power plant installation is perfect. Mooring rings and anchor provide for any kind of emergency landing. When a ship such as the Graylark is compared with the seaplanes used during the War, such as the HS-2, equipped with the same Liberty motor, but painfully making 68 to 70 miles per hour...
...first thorough renovation that the White House has received since before the war is now under way. The entire heating plant is being torn out, and hereafter the White House will be heated from the furnaces of the State, War and Navy building next door. The renovation is expected to take ten weeks-the approximate duration of the President's absence...
...each state. The A. M. A. is widely known as a model of efficient administration under the direction of Dr. George H. Simmons, whose headquarters are in Chicago. With 88,000 members-the majority of American physicians,-with a number of first-class medical publications, with an extensive plant and equipment, a large staff and a powerful central executive committee, it represents the best contemporary thought of orthodox medicine. These very qualities have incurred for it the opposition of medical independents of various cults, who claim that, as a political machine, Tammany Hall can't hold a candle...
Faccioli, the genius of the experiments, is an Italian by birth and training, 46 years old, a resident of America for 20 years. Like Steinmetz, he is a cripple; he moves about the plant in a wheeled chair. Faccioli has a touch of the philosopher as well as the technician...