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Passengers on a coastal vessel which left San Pedro just before the first temblors, told of watching the cliffs at Palos Verdes slide into...
...Cure. Radio waves and hot air are curing arthritis, syphilis, gonococcal infections and certain blood-vessel diseases of the hands and feet at Dayton's Miami Valley Hospital. The patient lies in an insulated chamber, his head, however, protruding. In the chamber's side walls are large condenser plates which, like the aerials of radio systems, send a 30-metre high frequency wave through the patient.* In 30 minutes his temperature rises to 105° or 106° F. He sweats, germs within him begin to die, injured tissues and nerves begin to heal. Profuse sweating weakens...
...American Federation of Labor backed the fight against it in Congress, claiming that U. S. shipping inspection laws are already more stringent than the proposals of the International Convention. They claim the following jokers exist in the Convention's wording: i) A safety certificate from a foreign vessel's home port would prevent additional inspection by U. S. inspectors, as is now possible. 2) Present provisions of the Seamen's Act covering experience of seamen shipping from U. S. ports could not be legislated upon. Alien seamen would no longer have to pass medical inspection. 3) Foreign...
...newest Lake product is 22 ft. long, 6 ft. wide, weighs 10 tons, carries a crew of two, has room for two more. Attached to the bottom are sprocketed wheels which enable the vessel to trundle over the sea bottom, under floating structures. A manhole in the craft's bottom opens when internal air pressure exceeds external water pressure, enables a diver to walk outdoors or an investigative Beebe to make comfortable, direct observations of fish life. The device can move a short distance by its own power. But ordinarily a mother ship will tow it to the site...
Entrepreneur Moss insisted on naming the new vessel Explorer. This disappointed Designer Lake who, because the small submarine can trundle sidewise over the sea floor, ached to call her Crab...