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Show. Adjoining the meeting hall was a medical exhibit. Medical literature, pharmaceutical products, surgical supplies, health foods vied for attention. Outstanding among the popular shows was the new cure for hay fever. Like a kitchen stove it looked, with a pipe leading out through a fake window. Fresh air enters the pipe, is drawn into the body of the contrivance where it is purified of all pollen, and is then released into the room for respiratory purposes. Not much protection on a country ramble, but a great relief to the cityfolk...
...Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co., $3,373,976. Previous year, $5,049,367. President N. F. S. Russell offered no encouragement to stockholders: "As long as French costs for labor remain at levels 50% or more below similar costs in the U. S., such importations [pipes] will remain a commercial factor. It is one of the anomalies of the situation that some of the largest public utilities, privately or municipally owned, dependent on the sale of their water, gas and power to residents of the U. S., should, for a small percentage of ultimate savings, purchase foreign pipe...
...last, with some success in his ambitious scheme to draw Rumania out of the orbit of her time-honored ally, France. An Italian-Albanian-Bulgarian-Rumanian rapprochement spanning the lower Balkans and linked up with Hungary, thus encircling Italy's enemy Jugoslavia, has long been a favorite pipe dream for correspondents. Lest it crystallize into a rumor, M. Titulescu prepared, last week, to visit Paris for a friendly chat with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...
...plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit...
Inventor Sperry also described a compressed air barrage which might have made diving possible during the rough weather. "You take a pipe, perforate it with holes, let it down about 30 feet and then pump air through it at high pressure. The bubbles break up the waves over a limited area of ocean, and it seems to me that the Navy could have continued its rescue work behind that barrage. . . . The Standard Oil Company has done...