Word: smokelessly
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...cloak rooms of the Capitol Congressmen goggled last week over a tidbit of information that came out of their hearings on National Defense. Last May when the War Department was short $3,300,000 to purchase machinery to make smokeless powder for the Army, rich, patriotic Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch made an offer to Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson to put up the money from his own pocket. Financed instead by a Congressional appropriation recommended by the President, the machinery is now nearly complete. An obstacle to this generosity: such gifts to the U. S. require...
Died. Arthur William Savage, 83, inventor of the first repeating sporting rifle adaptable to smokeless powder ammunition (the Savage 303), founder of the Savage Arms Corp. of Utica, N. Y.; by his own hand (with a Smith & Wesson .44); in San Diego, Calif...
...stand against the British Cabinet on the subject of whales, as 10,000 Norwegian sailors who normally man British-owned whaling ships not only struck but prisoned this British commercial fleet in the deep narrow harbor of the Sandefjord. As the ships lay at anchor, their funnels cold and smokeless, pale-eyed Norwegian seamen in blue jerseys leaned against lamp posts on the quay, seemingly convinced that the British Navy would not invade the Sandefjord...
...Smokeless Coal. The annual U. S. loss due to smoke is put at $500,000,000, of which $140,000,000 is for ruined merchandise and cleaning buildings, much of the rest for damage to lungs and respiratory tracts. Salt Lake City's smoke problem is especially acute because the city lies in a natural bowl whose rim tends to keep the pall from dispersing. Metallurgical coke and petroleum carbon, supposedly "smokeless," have been tried there without success. The problem can be solved by treating bituminous coal with superheated steam at 1,000 to 1,400° F., driving...
Still in keeping with the general policy the old steel smoke-stack which previously helped to decorate the side of University Hall, has finally been removed. Smokeless since 1914, when use of the boiler plant in the basement of the building was discontinued, it had, nevertheless, remained a part of the Yard's scenery until this summer...