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When the artificial lake created threatened to inundate the basements, the Maintenance Department rushed to the rescue with a large gasoline pump at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon...
...Rome no interpreters were necessary since II Duce speaks fluent English. Premier Mussolini rushed forward and pump-handled his guest vigorously, then accompanied him to the palatial Villa Madama. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano warmly greeted Lord Halifax. There was nothing of the lavish display put on in Rome for Adolf Hitler's visits. Total cost of Mr. Chamberlain's three-day entertainment was only $5,000. But the Italian people, many of whom believe that it was the British statesman and not II Duce who kept them out of a war in September, gave Mr. Chamberlain...
That the stockmarket should react unfavorably to indications of continued pump-priming was proof of business' confusion. Heretofore, such pump-priming talk has boomed the market, and even Wall Street admits that sharp curtailing of government largess would toboggan stock prices. Last week's pessimism apparently stemmed from the realization that new deficits may mean new taxes. But this was one matter on which Congress gave signs of having its back...
...mild case of paranoia. A brilliant British scientist, he had many ideas, carried few of them through to solid achievement. He invented a wheel barometer, conceived the idea of using a pendulum as a measure of gravity, helped famed Robert ("Boyle's Law") Boyle make his air pump. He clearly conceived the motion of heavenly bodies as a mechanical problem, but his conception was almost obliterated in the glory of Isaac Newton's formulation of the gravity laws. He was jealous of Newton, made violent attacks on him, resented all his life the fact that Newton...
...compressing air more efficiently and cheaply than ever before. In practice, the compression of air generates heat which must be drawn off by water jackets. In the Jones device, there are no water jackets. The heat of the compressed air is removed by circulating oil and returned to the pump where it furnishes accessory driving energy. The same principle, Mr. Jones declared last week, could be used to increase the efficiency of superchargers on airplane engines. He has applied for a patent...