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Died. Lee Duncan, 67, World War I A.E.F. sergeant, who found a German shepherd dog in a trench in France, brought the animal home, trained him, got him in silent pictures in 1922, and with Rin Tin Tin and four subsequent generations earned over $5,000,000 from cinema and TV; of a heart attack; in Riverside, Calif...
...marvelous is U.S. technology today that practically any good idea can be turned into a product. The Army needed a giant ditchdigger. Barber-Greene Co. built one: a voracious behemoth that can dig a continuous trench 2-ft. wide and 6-ft. deep through any surface, including rock and coral, is now available to commercial purchasers. Le Tourneau Inc. of Texas built a mobile island crane that can be towed out to an offshore construction site, its legs sunk and anchored while it does its job. The job finished, the legs can be retracted, and the island crane towed...
COCO became a fashion herself. Returning from the Riviera to Paris, her bronzed face launched the suntan vogue. One day she went to the races in a man's trench coat. The next week trench coats were the thing to wear...
Take courses, for example. Black-smithing and three other Shopwork classes were first offered in 1901, continuing until 1916 when Henry Ford made them impracticable. Military History appeared in 1915, "Historical Aspects of the Present War" in 1917, and a congeries of special courses in Red Cross work and trench warfare technique the following summer Classes in "Americanization" appeared in the catalogue for 1920 illustrating perhaps an academic reaction to the Great Red Scare Physical Education, the most popular course in the early decades of the Summer School, disappeared completely in 1933, as students' academic interest continued to increase...
...north end of Bahrein Island is a ruined Portuguese fort and near it a mound 40 ft. high, 2,400 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide. Dr. Glob (who, says Bibby, has "a fine eye for country") picked it out, hired native laborers to cut a trench into it. Done properly, this is slow work: for years the archaeologists worked on the mound. Piled in layers were vertical walls and stamped clay floors all mixed with bits of pottery and copper...