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Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
...down his dusty cheeks. At Rochester, Minn., when he spoke at the presentation of a tablet to Drs. Charles and William Mayo, some of the spectators thought that the great Mayo Brothers were weeping. Those who stood closer saw that the rivulets upon their faces were not tears but sweat. Several dozen enthusiastic listeners were taken to the hospital with heat strokes, but the President went on to drive 90 miles to Winona under 110?...
...Sweat on learned brows . . . the pick-and-shovel corps of Science toiling far afield... unearthing the bones of vanished animals, the relics of dead civilizations...bringing their treasures to bustling cities for common men to see in museums. Doings of diggers lately...
...from Fort Belvedere that H. R. H. drove over last week to Windsor Castle and to Fort Belvedere he drove back. Instead of golfing on his 40th birthday he donned overalls, took up a hoe and worked up a sweat among the vegetables of his bachelor garden...
Under a sizzling sun organdied mannequins in the pesage of Longchamp's swank racetrack and Paris workmen in the field blinked the sweat out of their eyes for the start of the Prix de la Porte Maillot, day before the Grand-Prix last week. Most of them had bet on the U. S. favorite. Joseph E. Widener's El-Kantara, French Jockey Semblat up. When the barrier went up to send the horses off clockwise around the track, El-Kantara twitched back to his counterclockwise U. S. training, whirled and started off in the opposite direction...