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...flexible trolley to indicate the undersurface irregularities of the ice. Much more important are other outside devices: a conning tower surmounted by a circular saw capable of cutting through 13 ft. of ice; and two thin tubes which, in case the boat is frozen under deep ice, can drill upward 100 ft. to air. Simon Lake, submarine inventor of Stratford, Conn, designed all these devices...
...which always distinguished her. She trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope, swinging her body over her shoulder while hanging 50 ft. from the tanbark. Her record: 249 turns. Her first husband was one Clyde Ingalls, her second was Alfredo Cordona, Mexican trapeze artist, leader of the Cordox troupe...
...high cost of living in France which causes anxiety to all Frenchmen and their families, is due to our amazing rise in gold stores, because currency inflation is the chief factor in the upward movement of prices. . . . The flow of French long-term credits to nations which are badly in need of financial aid will prove the only natural...
...large sugar-beet estate near Magdeburg, Dr. Browne saw one of Germany's most famed dowsers at work. Covering his chest with a padded leather jacket, the dowser took in his hands a looped steel divining rod, began to pace the ground. Suddenly the loop shot upward, hit him a hard blow on the chest. Continuing, he charted the outlines of the underground stream. Then using an aluminum rod, which he said was much more sensitive, he estimated the depth of the stream. A rod of still another metal indicated by a chest blow that the water was good...
...sell liquor, it would create a local corporation as a subsidiary of the national corporation. Retail sale would occur through branches of the State corporation to citizens holding permit books. Nothing could be drunk on the premises. Prices uniform everywhere would be fixed by the national corporation scaling upward in proportion to the alcoholic content of the beverage. Drunkenness or misbehavior would be grounds for revoking a citizen's permit book. Purchases would not be solicited; liquor would not be advertised...