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Eloped. Mark Hanna 3d, great-grandson of the late Senator Mark Hanna ("the President-maker"); with Miss Catherine Backus, daughter of a Cleveland pump agent; from Cleveland, Ohio...
...White. What Science has done Science can undo. A telephone carried the catastrophic news to Berlin. Back flashed the advice of War Gas Army experts: "Pump ammonia into the air. Pump water, if that's all you've got. Throw the leaking phosgene tank into the canal. Water decomposes phosgene. Give the surviving patients milk...
...Pittston, Pa., where hard coal comes out of the earth, a Hudson closed car turned into hard-boiled Railroad Street, closely followed by a Peerless sedan. Crowding the Hudson to the gutter, the Peerless paused to belch a noisy blast of powder and lead slugs from several pump guns. Then it vanished toward the neighboring hamlet of Moosic, where it was abandoned, the occupants slipping away into a dense forest. In the shattered Hudson on Railroad Street lay Alexander Campbell, labor leader, and his friend Peter Reilly, both of them horribly dead...
Clarence Duncan Chamberlin was twice displeased last week by leaks. A fuel pump failed on his Bellanca plane and brought him and his companion Roger Q. Williams down to earth. Soon they went up again, circled, idled, wandered back and forth, wasting time, waiting. A tiny hole drained tiny drops from their gas tank. They came back to earth again 51 hours, 52 minutes, 24 seconds later, defeated by this tiny hole. They failed by half an hour and seven seconds to supplant the German world's record (TIME, Aug. 15) for endurance flying...
Inventor Sperry also described a compressed air barrage which might have made diving possible during the rough weather. "You take a pipe, perforate it with holes, let it down about 30 feet and then pump air through it at high pressure. The bubbles break up the waves over a limited area of ocean, and it seems to me that the Navy could have continued its rescue work behind that barrage. . . . The Standard Oil Company has done...