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...euphony of current advertisements, water pipe manufacturers have been trumpeting, bugling, tooting and piping the merits of various pipe materials. Brassmen have clarioned that brass pipes last a lifetime, do not rust. Ironmen have said the same for iron-pipes...
Last week steel-pipe makers rejoiced when Clarence T. Coley, operating manager of Manhattan's old and lofty Equitable Building, and his Chief Engineer Carl W. Poulsen announced that they had discovered a simple way to clear rust from the steel plumbing of their building. They drain the water off and force dry steam into the pipes. The heat makes the pipes expand, the rust shrink loose from the pipes. The steam is released and water flushes the rust away. The pipes become clean, although pitted, and thinner than when bought...
...Higher than all but two Manhattan skyscrapers; the Woolworth Building (792 ft.); the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (700 ft . ) . †To keep away air, prevent rust. Such paint is an economical product of so-called red lead (minium, Ph.O...
...success, as the Chummy proved to be in the Freshman. Sophomore, and Junior years, need not be discarded. Variety and constant refurbishing: only these things can save Harvard from Keezerism--or friendliness. This tocsin is, of course, not for the herd. But, in Chaucer's words: 'If gold rust, what shall iron...
...Calvin Coolidge, apostle of Prosperity, visiting perhaps the greatest single source of Prosperity in the U. S. The low mountains of Itasca and St. Louis counties are, literally, mountains of iron. Near Hibbing, where the earth gives an enormous red yawn, is the Hull-Rust Mine, the largest open-pit iron ore mine in the world...