Word: gas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Navy last June, into a mechanical engineering laboratory. The building has been re-lined for greater warmth and automatic sprinklers, foundations for heavy machinery and a complete drainage system installed. The building has been completely re-wired. Much of the apparatus, including a liquid air machine, steam and gas engines and steel testing machinery, has already been set up so that the building is now in active...
...majority of us deplore the failure of Congress to retain the Daylight Saving Bill. The opposition which destroyed it seems to have come from the Middle West, and possibly from the less evident, but all-powerful gas and electric light interests. New York City, by passing its own daylight saving ordinance, shows that it realizes the manifold benefits accruing from the Federal enactment and that it does not plan to await Congressional action...
...affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply for domestic use. It would involve stopping the operation of railroads, electric light and gas plants, street railway lines, and other public utilities...
Lieutenant Herbert Frederick Engelbrecht A.M. '18 died from poison gas at the Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C., on December 3, 1918. He had been on duty at the American University Experimental Station. Engelbrecht was inducted June 28, 1918, and received his commission in October...
Major Kenneth Pepperrell Budd '02 of the 308th Infantry has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by General Pershing. Major Budd's citation reads as follows: "For extraordinary heroism near Ville Savoye, France, August 16. 1918. Although Major Budd's post of command was subject to continuous and concentrated gas attacks, and despite the fact that he was severely gassed during the bombardment, he refused to be evacuated, remaining for three days to superintend personally the relief of his battalion and the removal to the rear of the men who had been gassed...