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...tons of water poured into the Lafayette, she listed 16 degrees to port, snapping her hawsers like rubber bands. Trying to keep her from capsizing, the Navy ordered holes cut in an empty water tank on the starboard side, to pump in water for balance. But early next morning, as the tide came in and lifted her heavy stern from the shallow river bottom, the Lafayette toppled, rolled over ignominiously on her side...
...trainees will be shown the apparatus and the methods of operating it, and then will practice on the equipment themselves. According to Cambridge Fire officials, no special equipment has been purchased to deal with an emergency. Although there are several of the English-type, portable pump-and-hose carts, which can be fastened to the rear of an ordinary touring car, they all belong to private firms, and none are owned by the Fire Department...
...catalogue in the mails, Sears, Roebuck remarked that some of the substitute materials in its merchandise "have been found to be far superior to the metal they have replaced. . . ." Examples: washing machine agitators, formerly aluminum, are now of Bakelite, vitreous china, enamel or plastic, all impervious to alkalis; a pump unit, formerly of brass and stainless steel, will use corrosion-resisting plastics...
...natural to expect that a condensed course will necessitate certain relaxations of the strict educational requirements of the College, but to attempt to pump two courses worth of information into a man in two-thirds the time which that process will continue to take in the winter months is a futile and needless sacrifice of Harvard's standards. The emergency for which the summer course is designed does not look to be of any short duration and even after the war it is possible that a three year plan will still be so attractive to prospective doctors, lawyers, and graduates...
...Because his wife and daughter were interested in outboard motor racing, Homer Price in 1923 bought a bench drill press and lathe, installed them in his dining room, made parts for outboard motors which he sold commercially. (That is how the Cleveland Pump people heard about him.) His wife "is more at home in a machine shop than in a kitchen," can do any job in the shop. She also pops the corn with which Homer feeds his own hobby: crickets. He keeps several hundred around the shop, singing in time with the power lathes...