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...nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew of 40 with a passion for invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little money and a lot of skill a player can so jiggle the dials that the claws will fish out of the candy a lady's compact...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. moans from a dumb-waiter stuck in its shaft brought a call for police at 4 a. m. For one hour 27 men sweated & strained, finally got the moaning dumb-waiter to the roof. Out flopped Ford Jensen, 6 ft. 3 in. Explained Ford Jensen: "I just went for a ride...
...Prince and Princess put off their U. S. tour four months, they would have found the height of the Washington Monument unchanged but its appearance vastly improved. Last week a vine of steel scaffolding began to creep up the shaft's sides. When the scaffolding reaches the top workmen will scramble up, remove dirt, soot, dust, fill in chinks, bathe the entire monument in soap and water until it looks as clean as it did on Dec. 6, 1884 when its aluminum tip was finally set into place. Cost of the monument's first bath...
Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
When the plant is finished three 750-h.p. motors will drive 400,000 cu. ft. of dried air, chilled to 35°, down the shaft every minute. It is expected that temperature will be reduced 8 to 12° in the main shaft, 5 to 7° in the branch workings, and the dry air will soak up 1,500 gal. of water every hour. Initial cost...