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...Heat in a double boiler, add yolks of three eggs slightly beaten and mix with one-third cup granulated sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Cook until it thickens...
...Vermonters, unable to find any single mountain upon which to bestow the name of their distinguished native son, have decided to christen four mountains "Coolidge Range." The bill to accomplish this, now pending in the Vermont legislature, originally included Killington, Pico and Shrewsbury Mountains. Last week Salt Ash Mountain was added to "Coolidge Range...
...spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands with Mayor C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake City. In Denver, 50 miles away, citizens rejoiced. Some thought that the six-mile Moffat Tunnel, longest railroad bore in the U. S., would soon be ready for snorting locomotives. They were wrong. Only the smaller pioneer bore,† running parallel with the railroad tunnel, was completed last week...
...tunnel, named after David H. Moffat, famed railroad builder, is scheduled for completion in August. It will be used by the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad and probably leased to the Burlington and other lines. It shortens the route between Denver and Salt Lake City by 176 miles, cuts a 4% grade to 2%. Tunnels are usually thought of as underground things. The Moffat Tunnel is up in the air to the extent of 9,000 feet above sea level; but it is still 4,000 feet below the summit of James Peak. Drillers and dynamiters have been at work...
...Killeffer, had now perfected "dry ice," a practical portable refrigerant, and brought it into wide use. For shipping ice cream it was 1500% more efficient than water ice. Between Manhattan and Philadelphia, 200 lb. of solid carbon dioxide replaced 3,000 lb. of water ice and 600 lb. of salt. For shipping frozen fish from Manhattan to Detroit, 1,200 lb. of carbon dioxide supplanted 17,000 lb. of ice and 1,700 lb. of salt. The slightly higher cost of "dry ice" was much more than offset by the gain in space available for pay freight and the cleanliness...