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...well-being is incalculable, they could justly figure that eleven billion dollars of industry depend upon their knowledge and activity. The diversity of their work has enforced specializing: agriculture and food chemistry, biology, medicine, cellulose, colloids, dyes, fertilizers, gas and fuel, leather and gelatin, paint and varnish, petroleum, rubber, sugar, water, sewage and sanitation...
...strongly suspect Secretary Stimson of borrowing his "bathtub" analogy- from Secretary Mellon's experience with the bathtubs of the old Bull Hotel in Cambridge, England. I recently stayed there and largely failed to solve the intricacies of the 18-inch brass and rubber stoppers with the thumb screw attachment in the same three tubs which Mr. Mellon used, and of which the Dull Hotel is justly proud (TIME, Aug. 3). There seems to be no way to manipulate to prevent a slow but steady drain. But the Hull Hotel is one of the best and most comfortable hotels...
...Austrian water ski is made of a bamboo frame about 8 ft. long, 2½ ft. wide. The frame is filled with a tapered rubber bladder topped at the centre with a boot-like rubber cylinder. The walker's foot and leg fit into the cylinder up to the hip. Fastened to the underside of the frame are two hollow cones. The broad hollow ends are directed backward and provide sufficient hydrodynamic resistance to keep the skis from sliding backward between steps. The water-walker must exert much effort to keep his legs from going apart and from under...
...happy summer of 1929, Cyrus Stephen Eaton was a director of 19 companies. In three directorates he was on the executive committee, in four chairman of the board. The companies ranged over a wide field, from Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corp. to National Refining Co., included steel, rubber, paints and power...
...dozen eggs. Neither the hen nor any of the eggs was damaged. Their fall, from an airplane 3,300 ft. high, was a demonstration of a new parachute designed by Soviet experts. Developed to support only small loads, the chute was of conventional design, but with a rubber hood affixed over its basket. The hood fills with air and expands in descent, decreasing the rate of fall to about 16.4 ft. per sec. (Ordinary rate of fall of U. S. made parachutes with a man of average weight: 18 to 20 ft. per sec. Force of landing is equivalent...