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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inventor David Bushnell made a practical model. Robert Fulton followed Bushnell's ideas with a Nautilus which dived down 25 feet and stayed down four hours, its crew breathing compressed air. The South used submarines in the Civil War and one sank the Federal warship Housatonic though swamped and sunk herself by her torpedo's explosion. The French Plongeur of 1863 was 146 feet long, driven by compressed air motor. The significant features of the Holland experiments were the in troduction of a gasoline engine and of internal ballast tanks to admit and lower the ship's buoyance so that...
Beginning at the fifth hole of their first round, Golfer Gunn went stark, staring golf-mad, made six birdies, used only nine putts on seven consecutive holes-putts varying between 35 and 12 feet-sunk with a borrowed putter. His score for the first 18 holes was 69, breaking the course record by two strokes. After that it was only a matter of time before Mr. Gunn won match and championship...
...great German actor's first U. S.-made film.* It concerns one August Schiller, who flourished in Milwaukee back in the days when gentlemen associated that town with beer, and when ladies carried muffs. The first half of the film shows him a pillar of society, plain, foursquare, sunk in a large family. A doting father of six, a pompous cashier in his bank, a champion bowler, he is admirable in all things, full of little unpricked vanities, and simply worshipful in an Olympian set of whiskers that obscure almost a half of his necktie but add immeasurably...
...issued by the U. S. Government, it appears to be generally accepted by those competent to form an opinion that out of 12,000,000 workers engaged in manufacturing and industry in the U. S. 1,500,000 are unemployed. . . . Our own unemployment figure has just sunk to 978,000, the lowest since...
...company of infantry may have a constructive strength equal to a regiment. Thus the 75,000 troops with the Black fleet were largely constructive. In the second place, the results of an action are decided by umpires. In the New England game, for instance, the cruiser Concord was "sunk" by the battleship Pennsylvania. What happened was that the Concord, lightly armored, chanced to get in range of the Pennsylvania's 14-inch guns, remain in range for a time long enough (in the umpire's opinion) for the Pennsylvania to have sunk her in actual warfare...