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...never had to work under air pressure. In 1925 the chipping was started by Princess Mary with a pneumatic drill. Two pilot tunnels, each 12 ft. in diameter, were cut out from Liverpool and Birkenhead until in 1928 only a thin curtain of stone hung between them in mid stream. Out to chip this down and shake hands under the Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug chippers kept on, year after year, enlarging the 12-ft. rock tube to hold cast-iron tunnel sections 44 ft. in diameter. When...
When the billowing white curtain had blotted out land and sky. Researcher Henry G. Houghton Jr. barked an order. Centrifugal pumps sent a high-pressure stream of liquid through the overhead pipe. Its nozzles hissed, and jets of Mr. Houghton's chemical cut into the fog like rapiers. The white sea seemed to divide, roll back like the Red Sea before Moses. Soon the watchers were looking through a half-mile tunnel of clear air, 30 ft. high, 100 ft. wide...
...London, when drought shrank the Thames to a narrow stream, Lady Plimsoll painted a thin green line around the inside of her bathtub, six inches above the bottom. Like the original "Plimsoll line" which her late great father-in-law Samuel Plimsoll devised to mark the depth below which a ship must not be loaded, Lady Plimsoll's line decreed high water mark in her bathtub. By last week all over England, patriots were summoning painters to draw Plimsoll lines on their tubs...
Because France has won the last four races, one of her sons is confidently expected to repeat this year. Chief French hopes are Georges Speicher, last year's winner who has enough spare breath during the race for a steady stream of quips and japes; Roger Lapébie. bashful young Bordelais who won seven major events in 1933; Antonin Magne, laconic Auvergnat farmer who is called "The eternal runner-up''; Charles Pélissier, cameo-profiled idol of schoolboys. Dashing, excitable captain of this year's French team, Pelissier has won important races...
...girl: **** is not only the cream in our coffee, she is also the kick in our cocktall. She has acutely up to the minute clothes and a stream-line figure upon which to hang them. Favorite garment: ankle strap: occupation: prom trotter...