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...Hoover Dam reservoir's capacity will be 30,500,000 acre-feet, of which between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 acre-feet will be a silt pocket. Estimates of what the annual silt deposit will be vary from 80,000 to 250,000 acre-feet, but Government engineers opine that the total deposit in 50 years will not exceed 3.000.000 acre-feet. Reader Stewart's friend's figures for the silt content of the Colorado River look high. Government observations at Yuma, Ariz, noted .48% silt...
Nobody is more punctilious than a punctilious German. For civilians last week formal morning clothes and high hats were absolutely de rigueur at the launching of the new German super-cruiser or "pocket dreadnought" Deutschland. To the christening of this ship, not by a woman but by President Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von HINDENBURG himself, 56,000 persons had been invited and held 56,000 cards of admission...
...Director Rene Clair (Sous Les Toits de Paris) does in Le Million. As in comic opera, with swift pictorial action and amusing musical interludes, Le Million depicts its hero's vicissitudes. The hero wins a fortune in a lottery but he has left the lottery ticket in the pocket of an old coat. He has left the coat in his sweetheart's room. She gives it to a thief in a hurry to be disguised. The thief sells it to an opera singer who needs it for a costume. Finally, the hero gets it back...
...convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen at Houston last week Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak pulled from his pocket an old, flat, Irish potato. This, he announced, was his "magic potato." It brought him good luck. Said he: "It is even good for neurasthenia...
...America, whose office is in Brussels. Mr. Rode and Dr. Owen had words. "Does this mean that your company doubts my bona fides?" drawled Oxonian Owen. Controller Rode stood his ground. On Feb. 12, Dr. Owen contemptuously offered to repay I. H. C., Ltd. out of his own pocket the whole $150,000 they had advanced. Did they really want it, with all that such a transaction would imply? They did. He wrote a check, which they promptly deposited. When next I. H. C., Ltd. saw this bit of paper it bore the rubber stamp, "Account closed...