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...house in 1935, still takes a lively interest in politics. But his real love, and that of his sons, is the land. Last year alone the three Crockett men spent more than $80,000 for new equipment-but sometimes, just out of sentiment, Bill runs an old-fashioned steam-driven thresher...
...consortium of eleven powerful electric companies that sense a power revolution not many years away. If a full-scale generator works out as well as Dr. Kantrowitz expects, it will turn the chemical energy of coal or oil into electrical energy with 56% efficiency. The most efficient modern steam-driven generators do not get better than...
About five days ago one pile was driven with a steam hammer and seven piles with the sonic hammer. Then the steam-driven pile and one of the sonic-driven ones were load-tested. Specifications called for a minimum load of seventy tons, but as a safety factor both were tested for double the design load. It was found that with the 140 ton load the steam-driven pile sunk twice as far into the ground as the sonic-driven pile...
...ancient steam-driven train from Palermo chugged out of the Sicilian hill town of Zucco-Montelepre one night last week, four masked men emerged from the shadows and hopped aboard the mail car. Guns drawn, they warned the lone mail clerk not to move or they would kill him. Ripping open mail sacks, they collected $19,000, then jumped from the train, leaving the clerk trussed up on the floor. The stationmaster back in Zucco-Montelepre's rickety railroad station, which is eerily lit by flickering oil lamps, allowed as how he had seen the men before the holdup...
...Winthrop Rockefeller's Winrock Farm in Arkansas, ex-Opera Tenor James Melton accepted, wound up selling his whole shebang of oldtime Americana to the host. Melton's collection, one of the finest privately owned "autoramas" in existence, includes both antique and classic cars, an 1829 steam locomotive, an 1893 steam-driven stage coach, enough other bric-a-brac to extend its inventory to 30 pages. Estimated price on the lot: about $250,000. Rockefeller will house the collection in a special building to be erected at Winrock Farm, charge admission fees, which will go to his charitable Rockwin...