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...number of auto tire companies have already retired from the field of billboard advertising, and two large producers of spark plugs and flour are preparing similar retreats. In some of the eastern states, the removal of these hideous and obstructive signs is being hastened by restrictive legislation. Women's clubs and other civic organizations are earnest supporters of the movement for their abolition. And the extension of prohibitive legislation will certainly hasten the withdrawal of manufacturers who in general are more weary of this expensive and unproductive competition...
...diminished. The exhaust valves working in the terrific heat of the outgoing gases are cooled by a column of oil forced under pressure through the stems and heads of the valves with greater reliability of the valve system as the result. A specially designed magneto furnishes a double spark. The general appearance of the motor is not unlike a Packard twin-six automobile engine with two sets of six cylinders arranged in V form. It differs by its superiority...
Evidently the atmosphere of the convention had laid heavily upon Dr. F. P. Keppel,* President of the Carnegie Corporation. Perhaps he felt that in such density there was no chance for the proverbial spark that might set the world afire. He therefore rose and told the assembled 299 in words plain, blunt, humorous : "Imagine a group of librarians or college professors or Presidents here spontaneously bursting into song or dancing, or both. Yet that is just what we need to break through our self-consciousness and our patterns of convention. This is fundamentally what the arts...
...that it drains the public mind of political interest. Having cast a ballot, the voter returns to his cares and amusements, vaccinated against any immediate recurrence of the political fever. The consequence is that questions which before election arouse the greatest heat are decided after election without striking a spark of interest: for example, Muscle Shoals...
...widows who survive it, the 9,000,000 orphans bereft through it, the 10,000,000 refugees who fled destitute before it," the passionate Baptist orator asseverated that "at any moment some wild-eyed militarist across the Pacific ... or some hysterical session of the Senate here may drop a spark into that powder barrel" which would disastrously involve "our sons, our daughters, our business, our security...