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...April, as part of the present $4,000,- ooo investment to develop Saratoga as a State-owned park and health centre, the New York Legislature voted an additional million for a huge central drinking hall, pump room and bath house. The scheme was wangled by two fervent Saratogoers, Bernard Mannes Baruch and George Foster Peabody. Joseph Henry Freedlander was appointed architect...
...California, Standard Oil of Louisiana, Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil of Nebraska, Utah Oil Refining Co. Under the terms of the agreement, the stations will display Postal signs, attendants will furnish blanks. They will carry the blanks out to motorists sitting in their cars at the pump, if desired, and immediately telephone their messages to the nearest telegraph...
...half-dozen of the planes on the carriers are land planes. Each is equipped with a rubber bag and air pump to inflate it in case of forced landings at sea. Two destroyers escort each carrier as tenders for such mishaps...
...against a plane in flight is sufficient to hold ice particles against the rubber by atmospheric pressure, although there is no actual adhesion. The ice will not remove itself. Ingeniously, the experimenters ran an air tube through the overshoe beneath the oil-holding layer. A flip of a small pump in the pilot's cockpit slightly inflates the tube, budging the ice, which is immediately blown away as the vacuum breaks...
Queen Mary Of England visited "The Anchor," London model saloon operated by Rev. Basil Jellicoe (TIME, Oct. 28), cousin of Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe (Battle of Jutland hero). The barman showed her how to draw a clear brew, demonstrated the beer pump. Emerging, said she: "I think it is a splendid place. It is so cozy and homely. I enjoyed myself tremendously...