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...Although Rumania is anxious to maintain the most cordial relations with Hungary, any attempt to place Otto on the throne would be considered a breach of treaties and international agreements to which Rumania is a party...
...collision. The full car length is 10 ft., width 4 ft. 4 in. Slipping easily through traffic, turning on a 16-ft. radius, parked wherever ten feet of parking space are available, the Austin offers obvious advantages with respect to handling in heavy traffic. Its sponsors also maintain that it will go 40 mi. on a gallon of gasoline, will run from 20,000 to 40,000 mi. on a set of tires. The Austin will reach a speed of more than 50 m.p.h...
...reasoned Inventor Claude, put warm surface sea water (between 79-86° F. in tropical seas) in a boiler, reduce the pressure and set it to boiling? Cold water could be brought up from 5,000 ft. below the sea's surface to condense the exhaust, maintain the vacuum. The cheap steam thus generated would whirl turbines, make electricity...
...last week a few hours after the stock deal was completed, Vice President Joyce, who is one of the ablest demonstrators in the business, put the XFJ-1 into-and easily brought it out of -a spectacular 12,000-ft. power dive. Navy specifications also demand that the ship maintain a speed greater than 180 m. p. h. at 6,000 ft. altitude...
William Morton Wheeler: Eminent as zoologist and Dean of the Bussey Institute. Profound student of the social life of insects, who has shown that they also can maintain complex communities without the use of reason...