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...long ago learned to lay great lengths of pipe overland to transport water, petroleum, natural gas, sewage. Georges Claude of France is the prophet and pioneer of laying great lengths of pipe on an ocean floor, to conduct seawater from the cold bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet...
...starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust pipe...
...King's Cup. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three years and served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes a pipe, seldom drinks. On Vara, in Newport, he does calesthenics on deck in pajamas. After breakfast he goes aboard Enterprise, wearing a business suit and a felt hat. to supervise the daily tinkering with the rigging. In the rain he wears a yellow slicker, but often sails the big yacht in shirtsleeves...
...France, Belgium. He likes to recall that when the corset-makers came and begged for steel he refused their plea, thus helped change the line of fashion. In 1919 he organized Vanadium Corp. of America and Replogle Steel Co. the latter being succeeded three years ago by Warren Foundry & Pipe Corp. Lately, however, he has been in practical retirement although he is a special partner of Harris, Upham & Co. But last week the name Replogle again figured in the steel industry of the world...
Harper Leech, newspaper man, economist, became vice president of Rudolph Guenther-Russell Law Inc., financial advertising agency. Newspaperman Leech works with sleeves rolled up, a green shade over his eyes, at least four spittoons on hand. Sometimes he gets away from work, rolls up his trousers, sticks a pipe in his mouth, wanders into the woods carrying an old satchel, emerges several days later. In addition to economics, he is an authority on politics, a potent discourser on philosophy, nature, baseball scores...