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...than four parts of the gas in 10,000 of air was dangerous. To prevent disaster absolutely Chief Engineer Holland installed 84 ventilating fans in four 10 story buildings, two on each side of the Hudson. Part of them blow fresh air into the tunnel floor through vents, others suck vitiated air through ducts in the tunnel ceiling. Thus they change the tunnel air completely 42 times an hour and but 56 of the fans are needed to do so. Fire hazard is prevented by watchmen stationed every few score feet; and there are tunnel fire engines at each entrance...
...Situation. In California, Texas, Oklahoma, there are vast underground reservoirs of crude oil into which men have drilled wells. They have been like boys, armed with straws, sucking lemonade up from great bowls. The harder a boy can suck and the more straws he can maneuver, the more lemonade he gets. If he stops to catch his breath or to wipe his nose, the other boys will suck up some share of his drink. Oil operators are such suckers, all ceaselessly aspirating oil from common, underground pools. Oil men are inclined not to trust one another...
...each well would restrict itself to produce, oil men estimate, only 200 barrels a day for a time, then consumers would use up the present excess. After a fortnight, supply should satisfy demand very evenly. It is Emissary Ray H. Collins' job to persuade Seminole Pool men to suck oil in unison, moderately...
...fields, down a thousand Main Streets goes the jogging army?Arabs, Finns, great Danes, bandy-legged Italians, blackamoors, Kansans, Californians, Georgians, the Tarahumura Indians of Chihuahua, Mexico, whose sandals go clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . They sit in ditches and catch their breath. They sleep in haystacks, hotels, Hupmobiles. They suck lemons, swallow dry toast, regird their loins and start jog-jog-jogging again. Only the fools sprint. It is 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Manhattan, where a $25,000 prize, fat vaudeville contracts and the plaudits of a multitude await the first super-marathoner to stagger across...
...electric dynamos. The moving arms had hairs on them, and after a while he could see the little drops of sweat forming and making the hairs on the arms go limp. Then a new set of arms would come on duty to force his lungs, like bellows, to suck...