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...toilet bowl which curves upward at the back, to conform to the natural contours of the body...
...Brent), everything goes like clockwork. In the equalizing chamber the crew stands chattering about horseraces and San Diego girls while water creeps up to their waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently the hatch cover is raised, a line attached to a cork buoy shoots upward to the surface and the men don "escape lungs," resembling hot-water bags. Then with clips holding their noses and mouthpieces gripped between their teeth, the crew in alphabetical order follow the escape line by easy stages to the surface...
...this point President Roosevelt waved the white flag of truce in the War Against the Utilities (see col. 3). With utility shares in the van, prices once more turned upward. American Water Works jumped to $15.50, up $3; Electric Power & Light to $14.25, up $2; Columbia Gas & Electric to $10.50, up $2; North American to $23.50, up $3.50. Industrial and railroad issues tagged along, U. S. Steel bouncing hastily back from a new low of $51 to $60.50. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average was back to 133 and Wall Streeters, eyeing Washington with something like...
Last week he followed upward another municipal chief who rode to a bigger job on that same flood, former City Manager Clarence Dykstra of Cincinnati, now president of the University of Wisconsin. For Neville Miller, whose term as mayor expires this month, was named assistant to Harold Willis Dodds, president of Prince ton. This means that beginning January 1, Princeton will be distinguished among U. S. universities in being run entirely by experts in municipal government, since President Dodds is already president of the National Municipal League. Assistant Miller will take over the administration in his superior's absence...
...recent weeks a rather marked falling off in shipments to customers occurred, resulting in an October average to date of approximately 54% of capacity." Next day, despite this warning, U. S. Steel common, which only a few days before had scraped bottom at $51.12 led the whole market upward with a rush, closing...