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...Rock. Visitors to Chicago's World Fair in 1893 were almost able to drink White Rock pumped directly from the company's springs in Waukesha, Wis. The scheme had been conceived by one Charles Welsh who had been given the springs by his uncle, but after several miles of pipe were laid, it was discovered that the cost was too great. Even without this brilliant stunt White Rock prospered. At first it had been sold only locally. Then a chance sample reached a Manhattan gambling hall owner who obtained a 50-year sales agency which the company later bought back...
...Refining Co. One of the leading producers in the Mid-Continent Field, White Eagle markets its products throughout the Middle West and Rocky Mountain territory. In September White Eagle had assets of $36,000,000, of which $28,000,000 represented oil and gas leases, refining stations, pipe lines, tank cars...
Author Tomlinson's narrative of the fighting in France is bitter. On Armistice Day, while London is going mad outside the windows, he goes up to young Bolt's office, sits down alone, smokes a pipe, thinks of Charley Bolt who has been killed. The book ends with Tomlinson and Maynard revisiting the weedgrown battlefields of France, trying to avoid souvenir-collecting tourists, trying to see some hope for the future...
...main clue to the Relativity Theory.* Age 77. He marked the week by resigning as head of the physics department at the University of Chicago because of ill health. Next spring at Pasadena, Calif., Professor Michelson, now convalescing from an operation, will peer through a very straight corrugated iron pipe, from which air will have been evacuated, to determine more accurately than heretofore the speed of light...
Sirs: In your issue of Nov. 11, page 58, you announced the purchase and early arrival of a one quarter million dollar pipe organ by Pierre Samuel duPont in Philadelphia, and as such superb musical instruments as this are so rare, would like to know if this music will go on the air and if so from what station...