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After three more spins of the wheel steam hissed from the boiler, and the emblems began to twirl slowly. After that the smile did not vanish from Mr Ford's face except when a photographer dropped his flash bulb, scattering magnesium foil across the immaculate floor...
...jails. But if you remember that you are watching lowly-born moderns struggling through today's sea of sorrows, while Mr. Chaplin is doing his level best to scatter your attention over a vast series of ingenious gags, you can also study the differential calculus in the proverbial boiler-factory...
Rounding a curve just before taking a bridge across the Susquehanna River the six-car train had come to a broken rail, careened through the guard rail, spilled sideways across an abandoned canal bed, finally halted with the engine half submerged in the icy river. As the locomotive boiler exploded, the ties on the roadbed burst into flame from friction...
...stories played on the front page. Only a few financial editors have built up a personal following. Best-established in San Francisco is John Stackhouse Piper of the Scripps-Howard News. Born in Caribou Me. 39 years ago, he crusaded last year against the realty reorganization racket, oil royalties, "boiler rooms," bucket shops...
...Institute for overhead, the rest to the researcher for salary and equipment. Most but not all of the Institute's output is highly specialized of interest mainly to the client it benefits' Sodium metaphosphate was for a century considered a chemical curiosity. Then an expert on boiler waters discovered it was a potent water-softener. The Mellon Institute investigated possible uses. Now the onetime curiosity is used in vast quantities by textile mills and laundries as a soap-saver; in hotels for dishwashing; for cleaning shrubbery and bathing dogs...