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...accident naturally recalled the several motor smashes that involved correspondents accompanying Presidents Wilson and Harding. On the former's League of Nations swing to the Pacific Coast, three press employes were injured, one killed. During the Harding trip to Alaska, two more were injured, one killed, victims of a skid...
...cloudy morning in 1916, the craggy rocks off the Jutland coast tickled the belly of the U20 and its ribs caved...
...fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom...
...Cooper's blueprints contain his plans (published last week) for an ancient scheme never yet effected on a large scale-"letting the ocean do the work." Along the Pacific Coast one occasionally sees a battery of barrels or floating cylinders sapping a mite of Ocean's strength as they are slid up and down on ratchets by the incoming rollers. There are still visible along the Atlantic Coast, relics of crude paddle-wheel tide mills, which worked only with the falling tides and kept their operators up at annoying hours as the tide changed its time of fluctuation...
Thirteen years ago the Standard Oil Co. (Calif.) completely eliminated the twelve-hour day in all branches of its operation on the Pacific Coast, and almost immediately the same policy became a fact throughout the petroleum industry in California...