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General Hugh Samuel Johnson accepted an invitation to address the 14th annual "Sowbelly Dinner" of the potent Colorado Mining Association at Denver, telegraphed he would fly out. When bad weather grounded him in Washington, the Association's pressagent quickly arranged to transmit the speech by telephone. Due to bad weather there was difficulty completing the circuit, and when his voice was finally heard, General Johnson nettled the fidgety gold & silver miners by talking about copper...
...noted (TIME, Nov. 16, Nov. 30) "that though no espouser of Causes, TIME will gladly transmit to Naturalist Burnet Mrs. Schroeder's $50." This appreciation of Australia's native bear, the koala, is creditable alike to Mrs. Schroeder's heart and TIME'S courtesy. American dollars are acceptable in Australia, if received in the form of payment for Australian goods, but may I suggest that the $50 in question be applied to the preservation of American animal and bird life? Australians are not neglecting their koalas...
...experimenters without favor. The Commission thereupon withdrew its objections and installation of the Manhattan-Philadelphia line was started (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq.). Last week, with installation complete, A. T. & T. summoned newshawks to its downtown Manhattan offices for the cable's first public demonstration. The cable can transmit 240 telephone messages at once. The voices are reduced to radio frequencies and all poured on the cable at once, separated at the receiving end by quartz crystal wave filters. Last week an engineer in one room merely talked to a reporter in the adjoining room, but between speaker...
Though no espouser of Causes, TIME will gladly transmit to Naturalist Burnet Mrs. Schroeder...
...abdomen constitute the "live load." At the front end is an apparatus which can be raised and lowered like a derrick (the neck), and which car ries a grappling mechanism like a clam dredge or steam shovel (the mouth). Thanks to muscles which act as motors, tendons which transmit tension and skeletal parts which serve as levers and fulcrums, the tower-like legs may change into powerful jointed springs which propel the whole structure forward...