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...approached the problem of welding fine wires. In making paper on Fourdrinier machines, belts are used made of wire mesh in which the wires are only about .01 inch in diameter. To make long belts, sections of screen must be joined together. Arc welding or flame welding with a torch would be cheap and convenient, but it is impracticable because if the heat is applied an instant too long, the soft brass or bronze is burned and the seam ruined. In the Longoria device the weld is made with a small needle projecting from an insulated handle. When the needle...
Revived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to promote international amity in 1896, the Olympic Games are separated by four-year periods of bickering, money-grubbing and journalistic squeals of indignation. Current bonfire of ill will, back talk and panhandling began when the Olympic Torch was ceremoniously extinguished at Los Angeles in 1932. Last week it showed signs of ending as the best swimmers, divers, runners and jumpers in the U. S. finally got down to the business of swimming, diving, running and jumping to see which of them would actually represent the U. S. at Berlin next month...
...regularity of the seasons, have one point in common. All are minutely tailored to suit her requirements. In this procedure, the weak point is that Shirley Temple's requirements have now outgrown the ingenuity of her purveyors. Her current summer issue, in doing justice to the Temple torch song and tap dance, neglects the Temple talent for emotional acting...
...leave the pit to him. When the door into the pilot room blew open, and the flames were reaching into the cabin, you came out and closed the door. . . . Again the door blew open, so terrific was the speed, and again you came out, this time a human torch...
...Francisco's Shamrock Club, Dancer Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...