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...what he could see. Director of Tropical Research William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, wants to go under the mountain-the mile-high mountain of the deep sea-to see what can be seen by the light of luminous fishes. Last week he announced that a leading steel corporation was making him a specially designed deep-sea diving tank, doubtless on the order of Inventor Hartman's "diving bell" which has penetrated thousands of feet deeper than any live man ever went in the ocean and came back to tell about it (TIME...
...most important decision came when the Department of Justice attempted to cause the dissolution of the so-called "Steel Trust," and Justice McKenna wrote the decision of the Supreme Court which by a vote of 4 to 3 held that the United States Steel Corp. and its subsidiary companies did not form a combination in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...Premiers, pleasurably aghast, viewed the mighty steel framework of these sister ships, each 730 feet long and to be equipped each with five 600-horsepower heavy oil engines, capable of driving the ships 4,000 miles without refueling at 60 miles an hour. Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare explained, pointing with a chubby handled cane, just where the 100 passengers to be carried by each ship will berth, asserted that they will be served six-course dinners, 50 at a time in the dining salon, will promenade upon two decks between which will ply electric elevators...
...capital of Uruguay, the Cuban Minister, whose trunks had been packed, ordered them unpacked again. Many a Cuban plebeian, unconscious that the national honor had been saved, learned with ogreish interest of how an iron screw was slowly turned in the Santiago prison last week. The screw tightened a steel collar fitted with an iron spike and encircling the neck of Quesado Castillo, a Negro who had murdered his wife and daughter. At 6:03 a. m. the garrote began to contract. At 6:11½ a.m. Castillo was pronounced dead...
...years." Perhaps it is now giving way to the beginnings of a new one, noted these last fifty years a flair for early specialization. The broad base of the pyramid may be done away with altogether, and the apex will be erected on a scaffolding of light, standard-size steel girders. --New York Times...