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Abroad garbage disposal is made profitable. The Rotterdam trolley system is operated by power generated at the incinerator plant. A large part of London's garbage will be taken by Henry Ford to burn in his English factories. Combustion on 1,000 tons per day will save him 50% on his fuel bills...
...ship's deck is a hinged periscope which will yield if struck by a cake of ice. Close by is a flexible trolley to indicate the undersurface irregularities of the ice. Much more important are other outside devices: a conning tower surmounted by a circular saw capable of cutting through 13 ft. of ice; and two thin tubes which, in case the boat is frozen under deep ice, can drill upward 100 ft. to air. Simon Lake, submarine inventor of Stratford, Conn, designed all these devices...
Nelson looked out there, saw Bess, a shaggy black mare, patiently switching her tail, harnessed to an old-time buggy, haltered to a steel trolley-line pole. He demurred. "It's the law," said Reuben Curtis. A hundred guests soon filled the echoing lobby, but failed to decide the case. Reuben Curtis and a bellhop hustled to the nearest police court, quickly unearthed this 100-year-old statute...
...Laughs: "In a trolley in Moscow ... a business gentleman . . . with a very large and very naked fish in one hand...
...three principal Soviet orders are: The Order of Lenin, The Order of the Red Banner, The Order of the Labor Red Banner. Holders of one or more decorations ride free on trolley cars everywhere in the Soviet Union. Two-medal men may ride from one end of the Union to the other and back twice a year. Heroes belonging to all three orders may use the rail and waterways of Soviet Russia free for any distance at any time. Agents of the Ogpu (Secret Police) also enjoy this privilege...