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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poignantly for Milwaukee's taxpayers, Milwaukee might once have purchased rights to the Activated Sludge patents for $25,000 but preferred to gamble on their validity. The process was originally suggested at the Lawrence Experimental Station in Massachusetts in 1890. Further experiments were carried on in Manchester, England. About 1914 patents on the process were taken out in England and elsewhere by a British foundryman named Walter Jones. He formed Activated Sludge, Ltd., died in 1922. An American named Edgar C. Guthard, the U. S. licensee, and Activated Sludge, Ltd. sued Chicago's Sanitary District...
Stables? Yes, horses still have a hoof in the telephone business. Especially in the transoceanic radio-telephone service. . . . Automobiles are not allowed within a mile of the Platanos receiving station antenna, lest the magnetos might cause interference. So the technical staff who live all the time at the radio station have horses to bring in supplies and to get in and out to the highway themselves. . . . Horses cause no radio interference. . . . The most profitable aspect of transatlantic telephony for the I. T. & T. up to now has been the sale of the children of these horses...
...stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept a dark secret long after the red and grey plane left Moscow. Then a Canadian radio station plucked the news from the ether that: "We are three hours from the Pole, flying nicely...
...pretty young women when he noticed Lawyer Hurley. "I was shocked. I told him he couldn't lie there like that. But he kept lying with his head on the sand looking at the sky. So I called the police." Three policemen marched protesting Lawyer Hurley to the station, booked him on charges of indecent exposure. He was acquitted...
...suspected of not going to Church on Sunday. A rumor denied by the Coryells is that there were penalties for nonattendance. Another exaggeration is that the office girls are fined if they go to the lavatory more often than once in the morning, once after lunch. Coryell service station men are encouraged to be proud of their bright orange uniforms and to swarm over each car as if it were a racer rolling into the pits. They are also under strict instructions "never to engage a lady in conversation only as she leads." During the two months that the Coryell...