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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot who is particularly interested in an automobile that will burn anthracite coal; Utility Tycoon Gustave Mercier whose poker-faced wit made power men merry; Holland's young Professor James Van Staveren with curly brown shovel-shaped beard; India's Rai Dahaden Agarwal and his wife Mme Kapoorsundri Agarwal in her embroidered shawl; Lithuania's Jurgis Ciurlys, director of machines of the Lithuanian State Rail ways; Poland's eminent Dr. S. J. Zowski- Zwierzchowski of Warsaw Polytechnic Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Third Power, Second Dams | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

Marcel Duchamp has hardly painted a picture since. Carrying French cynicism to almost pathological lengths, he entered a shovel in an art exhibition at the Bourgeois Gallery in 1917 with an elaborate essay on its artistic worth, later bought a bird cage, filled it with lumps of marble, called it Why Not Sneeze? and sold it to Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cubism to Cynicism | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...surface a giant clamshell crane, dynamite, a steam shovel, squads of digging miners, burrowed from four different angles on the thin chance that the trapped men might still live. A pipe was forced into the mine tomb and, six days after the cave-in, Dr. Robertson's voice cried faintly, "Hello. We are all right." All, however, were suffering from shock, starvation, exposure. Brandy, chocolate, soup, Bi-so-dol, oilskins, flashlights and candles were dropped down the 5-in. pipe. Then a new menace appeared when water began flooding the wrecked mine. With freedom or drowning a matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Gold Mine | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead Co., in which his family had a fat block of stock, had exhausted the best of its ores, Crane at 40 reluctantly abandoned the sea, plunged into a study of mining methods in the U. S. and South America, invented an underground shovel, became head of the company, worked low-grade lead ores at a profit, using one-third the former man power. At 56 he found time to design the America's Cup yacht Weetamoe. The same year he got a D.Sc. degree from Colorado School of Mines. Now white-haired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: End-of-Season Honors | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Energetic Winthrop House Dance Committeemen organized a shovel brigade yesterday to combat the rising tide of water and slush and clear a parking space for the Friday evening dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITANS' SHOVEL BRIGADE CLEARS ROADS FOR DANCE | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

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