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...Savannah, Elliot Mitchell bought a pair of second-foot shoes, had a misery when he put them on, probed into the toe of the tightest one, pulled out $30 in bills...
...would seem the man who would change the other vital method of joining parts to parts, the nut & bolt. As old as the Christian era is the principle of the screwthread, discovered by Archimedes, elaborated by Hero of Alexandria. But bolting is far from perfect. Vibration shakes loose the tightest of nuts, and just as for want of a nail the battle was lost, many a time for want of a bolt the airplane has crashed, the train has been wrecked, the powerplant shut down...
There is his picture of a Boston gentleman, really rich, who has made an art of Thrift (in this case Thrift is really a euphemism for the tightest sort of penny-pinching). He has invented a device, whereby his pretty niece's 1910 model car can be propelled very reasonably on kerosene, once it has been started on the more expensive gasoline. He has had his trousers turned three times. He shares his newspaper with a neighbor. And yet he is the possessor of one of the Hub's hidden fortunes. An exaggerated caricature? Of course, but very good reading...
...atom, tightest bundle of matter which man knows, would be a morning glory pod popping out its electron and proton seeds, if physicists had an electric current of sufficiently high voltage at their hands. General Electric jupiters and Westinghouse thors have produced 5,000,000 volts of static electricity for an instant's duration. Their passing flashes have been useful only to indicate the nature of natural lightning. General Electric's William David Coolidge two years ago succeeded in ramming 350,000 volts through three special vacuum tubes connected in tandem. He got the cumulative, cascading effect...
From the fortnight's clatter of suppositions-as to the reason for Wheeling & Lake Erie stocks hopping from $27.50 a share on Jan. 3 to $130 a share last week when the practical market corner in this stock was at its tightest, and the reason for other railroad stocks popping like heated popcorn kernels -these facts became certain last week...