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...devices, he said. "The Navy Department now uses every modern safety appliance possible and the most likely thing that could be done would be to build larger derricks, but when one considers the descents made each year by thousands of submarines, the small number of accidents, and the wide area which the submarines cover this plan seems almost a physical impossibility...
...Sperry also described a compressed air barrage which might have made diving possible during the rough weather. "You take a pipe, perforate it with holes, let it down about 30 feet and then pump air through it at high pressure. The bubbles break up the waves over a limited area of ocean, and it seems to me that the Navy could have continued its rescue work behind that barrage. . . . The Standard Oil Company has done...
...least one city, see LETTERS, p. 2. Chamber-President Pierson announced last week that a flood control referendum was taken among all the 1,500 local Chambers of Commerce by sending them the recommendations of a committee of engineers and business men who surveyed the Mississippi flood area this autumn. Accompanying the recommendations was a list of arguments against them. The recommendations favored Federal assumption of all flood control expense. So did the final vote...
...when Secretary Davis telegraphed potent mine operators in the strike area, begging them to to use his office as a meeting room to reach an agreement with Labor, most of of them declined. Potent operators have organized their mines with non-union labor since last spring. Wages are where they (the operators) want them. Such operators congratulate themselves on having "broken Labor's stranglehold on the industry...
...South is an ideal dairying area since green feed can be had during ten months of the year, and by proper rotation of crops, green feed may be had in the other two months also. This factor especially fits the cheese industry, since grass-milk cheese is considered best. . . . "Farmers generally are just beginning to appreciate the fact that the dairy business is the most stable business in which they can engage. Present outlook indicates that in 1928 the dairy business of this country will receive its greatest impetus. The national consumption of cheese is increasing at the annual rate...