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Patent No. 2,000,000 is for an "improvement for pneumatic tires for railroad cars."* Inventor Ledwinka thinks very little of it. Said he: ''Rubber at high speeds builds up a tremendous heat, enough to blow out the tube, or in solid tires to melt them internally. We were forced recently to replace pneumatic tires with metal wheels on a train we shipped to Texas." Budd Co. will develop his railroad tire, said he, "to meet competition...
...highways, finest in the world, are little better than Siberia's in dead of winter. That something should be done about it was suggested last week by John R. Adams, Detroit adman. His suggestion: Lay sheet steel surfacing on concrete imbedded with electrical heating units to melt ice & snow. Adman Adams believes his heated highways will be here...
...metallurgy department students compain that they are forced because of inadequate facilities is Rotch, to trek to the Watertown Arsenal, where they can use the government's plant. The Engineering School furnaces, they complained, would not melt the metal, and according to one there was a lone calibrated graduate for measuring materials. The accuracy of these assertions could not be checked definitely...
...from Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mr. Marshall, during the War, gave it to the Red Cross for auctioning. Each time the highest bidder, having paid, returned the cup for further auctioning. When a series of such auctions had realized $125,000, Mr. Marshall decided to smash the cup, melt the gold for Red Cross benefit. Before an audience which included President Wilson he cracked it once. The cup fell apart, turned out to be mostly pewter, worth...
...Half a lap before the end of the race, Cunningham repassed Venzke. Bonthron started his sprint coming around the last turn. He passed Venzke on the outside and started down the straightaway toward the tape, four yards behind Cunningham. Thirty yards from the tape, the gap began to melt. The finish duplicated the finish of the first race, except that the judges decided that this time not Bonthron but Cunningham was inches in front. Venzke again was a stride behind. The time (3:52.3) was a new indoor record...