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...essence, the Burger bombproof cellar is a boilerlike contraption of heavy steel slightly larger than an automobile trailer. Buried in the ground, it is fitted with bunks and provision shelves for householders. A special pump keeps gas from seeping in by increasing the interior pressure. As in a submarine, the air is kept fresh by passing it through coils of chemicals...
...used to go on Sunday mornings to St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church in Detroit, accompanied by her grandfather who stoked the church fires, dusted the pews. First organist at St. Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood on the fire...
...islands enclosing Cobscook Bay. In places the water was 150 ft. deep. A 6-knot current slashed through the channels. It was forseen that for ten hours a day. between tides, turbines could not turn, but while they were operating it was planned to use their power to pump seawater to an upland reservoir, whence it could return creating auxiliary power during Quoddy's idle hours...
Because on some 6,000,000 of the nation's 6,800,000 farms farmers still read their mail-order catalogs by lamp light, still run their radios, if any, on batteries, still pump their water by hand or gasoline engine, President Roosevelt last May used his emergency powers and some of his relief billions to set up a Rural Electrification Administration. Its job was to provide farmers with electric lights, electric refrigerators, electric pumps, electric feed grinders. Early this year Nebraska's Senator Norris, No. 1 Congressional lover of electricity, sponsored a bill to lend...
...last week from a more authentic source when Dr. André Alexis Cueto of Cincinnati offered the medical profession a machine to grow hair on heads where hair follicles are not altogether dead. The machine consists of a hood which fits over the scalp. By means of an air pump Dr. Cueto creates an alternate vacuum and pressure upon the scalp. This exercises the capillaries of the scalp, brings revivifying blood to the follicles. On 150 heads which were as bald as the sole of his foot Dr. Cueto last week asserted he had produced satisfactory growths of hair...