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...Last week the Suez Canal management announced that its gigantic suction dredgers had completed the job of deepening the 100-mi, long ditch through the shifting sand of the Sinai Desert from 33 to 34 ft., to oblige primarily big Australian freighters, incidentally the British Navy. *Wafd means "delegation." The party takes its name from the delegation led by Zaghlul Pasha to Paris in 1919 to voice Egyptian Nationalist aspirations at the Peace Conference...
...Associate Chemist Leon A. Greenberg rigged up the following apparatus at New Haven: a large glass tube through which the experimenters couid exhale into bottles containing fluids having affinities for garlic and onion odors; a gas meter to measure the amount of breath Drs. Haggard and Greenberg exhaled; a suction pump to pull their breath through the detector apparatus...
...endless belt, the rods first pass through a moistening device, then comb through the cotton plants. Because the rods are wet, the cotton sticks to them and winds itself around them. The adhering cotton is then mechanically stripped from the rods and passed into a hopper by suction. That is all. Planters who watched the Rust machine in action last season in Arkansas fields wondered why it had not been invented before. It traveled down the rows leaving the open bolls stripped (see cut), the green bolls unharmed. It picked up no, rubbish. In seven and a half hours...
...workmen was a Russian called Peter with a temper like gunpowder, who did five men's work in a day and drank at night with the capacity of a suction pump. Was there a great spar to be lifted or an anchor to be moved into place? Call Peter. Get the Russian to do it. And Peter would rush up like a regiment of Cossacks and fall to as though his life were at stake. Except sometimes, when he appeared to be sketching in a notebook. Then he would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move...
...Suction slots through which a fan inside the wing sucks air, control the thin stratum of air ("boundary layer") next the upper surface of the wings, increase lift 150% using only 2% of a light airplane's power...