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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Union President Curtis said men were dying of silicosis at the rate of one a week. Seventy-five examinations revealed 75 pairs of lungs that cannot last five years. An effort is being made to examine each of the 1,500 subway workers of Manhattan, but the men are afraid. Silicosis is not on the list of Industrial Diseases; men found to be suffering from it would probably lose their jobs; would receive no compensation...
...lungs would heal. It is the increasing accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four years. The Board of Transportation at any rate is eager to do its immediate utmost. Said deputy chief engineer Colonel John R. Slattery: ". . . Two methods of preventing trouble from this source have been approved. They are the use of gas masks and the carrying of an extra hose line with which to wet down the drilling surface...
Down a sunny street in St. Augustine, Fla., sped an automobile excitedly tooting and towing a fantastic bicycle. Fourteen-foot wings flapped great currents of air on either side of it. Flushed, intense, George White sat optimistically astride his invention. He pedalled furiously to force the wings to a rate of 100 flaps per minute, cast off from the car, rose gracefully in air. Like some prehistoric monster, the ornithopter, wings glistening in sunlight, described a gigantic parabola and came, back to earth. It had traveled eight-tenths of a mile in one minute and 36 seconds (rate...
Bibles may be imported into the U. S. without payment of customs duties. Other books are taxed at the rate of 15%. In 1924 Lincoln MacVeagh, president of the Dial Press, brought one copy of the Apocrypha of the Nonesuch Bible to the U. S. from England and was taxed thereon 15%. Saying that the books of the Apocrypha were parts of the Bible, Mr. MacVeagh sued the U. S. to get back his money...
...that President Colby Mitchell Chester Jr. (son of the famed Rear Admiral) has found his greatest problem in integrating the several organizations. To get the correct solution he is not hurrying his staff. That policy Postum directors approve, and they have postponed the increase of Postum's dividend rate. It has been $5 a share (all common, no preferred) since August, 1926. There was one 100% stock dividend and a second is believed imminent...