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...Panama Canal was being built he served three years (1910-13) as Civil Administrator of the Canal Zone. He wrote long homemade odes for every public occasion. Sample: Drift, clouds, drift, far o'er the Western sea; Rift, clouds, rift, in loveliness to me. Blow, winds, blow! Flow, tides, flow! Gild all with glory, Sun, we ask of thee! Canal workers submitted a protest to President Taft which read: "It isn't that we object to real poetry but Governor Thatcher's poetry is objectionable from every point of view. Something should be done by those...
...Conference Henry A. Hitner's Sons Co., potent Philadelphia dealers, had tied up at their waterfront yard awaiting the torch three battleships, 26 submarines and destroyers, 55,000 tons of auxiliary vessels. Ingenious British junkmen picked the best ships of the German navy off the floor of Scapa Flow, sliced them into $13,000,000 worth of scrap. An abandoned railroad is always a juicy plum. A big deal that junkmen missed was the sale of 199 World War vessels to Henry Ford for $1,600,000. He towed them through the Great Lakes to Detroit, melted them down...
...city average (a good twelve-room unfurnished house and garage rent for $1,000 a year, taxes are $32.25, steak is 34¢ a lb.). Denverites drink bad whiskey and gin, little beer. Water is precious yet Denver wastes it. Says the Water Board: "Once you get hold of a flow of water, if you don't use it you forfeit it to someone who will." Last week, however, citizens were allowed to water their lush, green lawns for only three hours in the evening, one side of the street watering one day, the opposite side the next...
...Examples flow from any physician's experience. Overweight?the man of 40 getting a fat body and a fat head, who avows himself a small eater yet is clogged with his own metabolic products; the man becoming set about the neck and waist, who turns his body slowly rather than his head and eyes quickly, or who is bluish and breathless, losing his rib movements and wants to 'stay put.' Then the various gastrointestinal victims who need to be taught how to eat. how to digest, and to regulate their bowels, and perhaps to be cured of their 'conscious abdomens...
...prevailing winds must jump, causing sustained updrafts; or where plowland, woods & water heat and cool the wind, cause rising convection currents. A skilled pilot may soar for hours from ridge to ridge, now & then picking out an arid patch of ground over which he can climb a rising flow of warm air as he would a circular staircase. A high development of the sport is "cloud-hopping," "hooking on" beneath a cumulus cloud, which always indicates warm air, and riding it for miles. Similarly an advancing thunderstorm always pushes a column of warm air ahead of it. Parachutes are worn...