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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...healthy young woman, 5 ft. i in. tall, 120 lbs. in weight At athletics she does not lose her breath as quickly as do other girls. She can hold a singing note amazingly long. Physiologically her body gets all the air it needs because, breathing more slowly than normal, she breathes more deeply. The average lung after a very deep inhalation contains five quarts of air. A person can never completely void his lungs of air. Even in death about one quart remains. In ordinary quiet breathing the average lung always contains a residue of two and a half quarts...
...Under the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon City, Col, officials last week discovered a ten-foot tunnel dug by convicts since last month's deadly riot (TIME, Oct. 14). In the tunnel were found sledges, drills, crowbars, powder. Alarmed, the officials searched the entire prison, found 300 lbs. of daggers, stilettos, blackjacks, clubs, saws, knives made from files ?all the makings of another violent outburst...
...Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew stronger the hotter it was heated. Other metals become weaker with heat. Mr. Lowry's alloy has a tensile strength of 60,000 lbs. per sq. in. at 600° C. (1112° F.). At the same temperature chrome nickel steel's tensile strength is 30,000 lbs. per sq. in. Name given the new material is konel metal - from ko(balt) plus n(ick)el. Uses are for the filaments of radio...
Automobiles 25% 25% 10% Beans (lbs.) ½? 3½? ½? Bibles 15% 15% 15% Blackstrap (gal.) 1/6? .03? .03? Boots and Shoes Free 20% 20% Butter (lb.) 8? 14? 14? Cattle (lb.) 2? 2½? 2½? Cement (cwt.) Free 8? 8? Corn (bush.) 15? 25? 25? Corsets 75% 75% 75% Cream (gal.) 20? 48? 56.6? Diamonds (cut) 20% 20% 10% Diamonds (uncut) 10% 10% Free Dolls 7% 90% 70% Dried Apricots (lb.) ½? 2? 6? Dried Cherries (lb.) Free 2? 6? Eggs (doz.) 8? 10? 10? Flaxseed (bush.) 40? 63? 56? Glassware (toilet) Free 50% 82% Gloves...
...bright water at Cape Gris Nez (grey nose), France, were, last week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male...