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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...been ploughed back, and a 50% stock dividend was paid in 1934. That year Iron Fireman introduced a model which put coal on nearly an even footing with the automatic appeal of oil or gas, since the coal was conveyed from bin to furnace without the intervention of a shovel. Aside from convenience, the strongest selling point for mechanical stokers is economy. More heat is obtained from less coal. Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner...