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Last fortnight, however, Matador Franklin proved that his courage has not deserted him. One Tomas Cobos, 29, dairyman, was drowning in the reservoir near El Pardo palace. Twoscore other swimmers stood about gibbering. In plunged Matador Franklin, fished out Tomas Cobos, revived him by artificial respiration. Dairyman Cobos prepared a petition to the Government, asking the Cruz de Beneficencia (Spain's Carnegie medal) for Matador Franklin...
...fall, supplying water for the city of Athens, and overlooking the famed battlefield where the Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B. C. The dam is faced with marble from Mt. Pentelicon (which also supplied the marble for the classic temples of the Acropolis) and the water from its reservoir travels a portion of its route to Athens via the old Hadrian Aqueduct, constructed some 2,000 years ago. Largely interested in Ulen & Co. is Matthew Chauncey Brush's American International Corp. and Charles Augustus Stone's and Edwin Sibley Webster's Stone & Webster...
...emptied a 3,500-gal. tank of carbolic acid into the river Czarna. Warsaw blanched, for the Czarna flows into the Pilika, and the Pilika flows into the Vistula, and the Vistula flows past Warsaw, and from it the city gets its water supply, filtering it at a great reservoir outside Warsaw. Officials at the Warsaw waterworks endeavored to calm apprehensions, pointed out that after floating 75 miles, 3,500 gal. of carbolic acid would purify rather than pollute the Vistula. But housewives were unconvinced, for down the Czarna, down the Pilika, down the Vistula floated thousands of dead fish...
Contrary to the reports in the Boston papers yesterday, the various swimming pools at Harvard will not be drained for the winter because of water shortage, according to a statement by T. W. Good, of the Cambridge Water department. The report had previously been circulated that the reservoir in Lincoln, which supplies the city of Cambridge, was so low that no hockey rinks might be maintained, and that all swimming pools would have to be drained during the winter months...
...General Motors' present leaning to aviation may be considered world-spread. General Motors is the emergency reservoir whence Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker draws cash and credit for his airplane factories in Holland and nine other European countries. Last week he disembarked at England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane...