Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cooked eggs, cold toast, no drinking water, no milk, no soup, no jam, no jelly- upon such things and conditions did the Secretary of War have to spend attention last week. Such things and conditions had been found to exist at Walter Reed General Hospital, the Army's largest medical establishment...
...water was served in the dining room," no soup had been served for "several months," no milk for drinking "for more than a year...
Toiling along, happy though hot, President Hoover last week derived immense personal satisfaction from one official act. He proclaimed effective the water-rights compact on the Colorado River, agreed to by six out of seven interested states.* The proclamation cleared away the last obstacle to actual construction of a giant dam on the Colorado near Boulder or Black Canyons...
Steam, or water vapor, operates a piston or turbine by the fall in its temperature. The higher the vapor is heated, the greater the pressure which must be controlled and the work the steam can do. Engineer Emmet sought a material whose vapor could carry great quantities of heat at relatively low pressures. He found mercury the best. It boils at 675° F., instead of at 212° F. for water. At 884° F. pressure is only 70 lbs. on a gauge, at 1,000° F. only 180 lbs. Those pressures are sufficient to run turbines. After...
...operations, had killed or injured not one person. While flying over the English Channel, as the City of Ottawa had done 100 times before, one of her engines went wrong. The pilot at the controls turned the plane back toward England. Three miles from Dungeness she struck the water. The passengers were dashed to the floor. Heavy baggage in a rear compartment smashed through a thin partition and clumped upon the passengers. Struggling desperately, four passengers, the pilot and mechanic kicked and tore their way out of the fuselage. They went back in and tried to haul the baggage...