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Today we want a mile of wire fencing eight feet high, 40 vacuum cleaners, and window curtains for 145 windows, all different. Yesterday there were 2,500 mosquito screens for the Business School; 12,000 napkins for the dining halls; a high-vacuum pump and an electro-dyalizer for the Medical School; a pair of andirons and a clock at McKinlock Hall; miles of conduit and electric wires; a variety saw for the carpenter shop; plumbing supplies; lumber; ushers badges for Commencement; paint; mimeograph machines; typewriters; and every day and always, chemicals with impossible names which must be spelled right...
...Phelps's attention was attracted to a picture of the College pump on the wall of his office. "The only good relic of past times left to us," be remarked. "It is too bad that some rowdies had to blow...
Died. William Goodman, 52, inventor-engineer, Vice President of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; in Manhattan, after a mastoid operation. The double-action Diesel engine which the U. S. Shipping Board has lately adopted as standard equipment for many of its ships, and the feather valve air compressor, were developed under his supervision...
...Murray Spangler invented a machine which was a combination of a carpet sweeper and suction pump. A small electric motor created a vacuum that sucked the carpet up away from the floor and against a carpet sweeper brush. This brush, revolving, beat against the carpet and loosened the dirt, which the vacuum in turn pulled into a convenient sack. This was, and is, the Hoover. William H. Hoover and his three sons, (Herbert W., F. G., and D. P.) made...
...Furze achieves that balance between rusticity and refinement which is sometimes considered the ideal embodiment of the English character. To Mary it seems that the rusticity outweighs the refinement. Still, she loves him, agrees to marry him. But as they plan for a new sink at Doomsday and a pump to supply water for Mary's dishwashing, she loses heart. In despair she takes a dawn train away from Cinder Town, going to Weyfleet to her sister Clare...