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Causes of Explosions, which surgeons guard against during operations under ether or ethylene anesthesia, include sparks and intense heat from lighting, radiation, or motor equipment; cauteries; static electricity caused by shuffling feet, rubbed hair, dry woolen blankets, frictioned rubber tubing...
Following this, a series of fine films were made on the subject of land transportation, elementary animals, and rubber. One of the best of these pictures is titled, "Nesting of the Sea Turtle." The film gives an accurate account of this curious creature which makes its home, year in and out, in deep water. In the spring of each year, however, the female turtle comes ashore to lay her eggs. Along the lonely southern beaches, she crawls above tide reach, scoops a deep hole in the sand with her flippers, and lays her ten dozen or more eggs. Finally...
...Last month Edward F. McGrady, A. F. of L.'s Washington lobbyist, sharply suggested that Industry should reserve funds to tide over its jobless no less than to pay dividends (TIME, Jan. 5). Last week William Francis ("W. O.'') O'Neil, president of General Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, announced a new and striking plan to pay Labor as well as Capital a dividend. In declaring a special dividend, General Tire's directors decreed that one-half of it should go to stockholders, the other half to a company fund to insure steady employment. Explained...
...Irrepressible Count Felix ("Sea Devil") von Luckner last week set out with friends on his schooner Mophelia to cruise and shark-fish in the Bahamas. His shark-tackle: A 100-ft. rubber rope which, he solemnly declared, would snap sharks out of the water when they finished their rushes...
...rubber in mounting engines, resulting in absorption of engine vibration...