Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the War first Rheims, then Carcassonne, then 200 more French cities adopted his chlorination methods. Lately Spanish, Portuguese and Venezuelan communities have done likewise...
...Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump for his right leg shot off during the War. And again he urged a sea-level canal-alongside the present-Canal, one to cost a billion dollars (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The U. S. War Department has his recommendations on file. U. S. businessmen occasionally wondered if the old engineer was alive. He was, and at 69 still shrewd...
...American Club members he retold how he had helped make eau potable a wide reality in France. It began at Verdun, during the War. Water was polluted; typhoid threatened the troops. He invented an automatic device to pump hypochlorite of soda into the drinking water. Two and a half to five pounds of hypochlorite liberated enough chlorine to kill the germs in one million gallons of water...
Died. Lincoln Eyre. 39, famed and adventurous World War newsman, Berlin correspondent of the New York Times; following an appendicitis operation; in Berlin...
Died. Mrs. Marie Hungerford Mackay, 85, "the untitled Duchess," relict of John W. Mackay (Croesus of mines & cables), mother of Clarence H. Mackay (president of Postal Telegraph Co.); of heart disease in Roslyn, L. I., N. W. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., the daughter of Civil and Mexican war veteran Col. Daniel C. Hungerford and his onetime Parisian wife, it was she who in the early '60s braved a squalid, vulgar Nevada mining town with her first husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John...