Pikes Peak Descent Made with Foot Brakes Only This Rolls Royce climbed Pikes Peak without dropping into low and without boiling over. Then it made the descent without resorting to compression or hand brake. To descend from the top of Pikes Peak by motor car is something that wasn’t being done a great deal twenty years ago, and to drop down th... continued here
War Bread in Peace Time
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BELGIUM and France might have been encouraged by the good news from the nutrition chemists at Williamstown about the prospect of food from the air and sun, and also by the black case they made out against white bread. For the Belgian and French people have gone back on the war basis of “black bread” as part of the national effort to eco... continued here
Foreign Exchange Money Tips
Foreign Exchange American travelers abroad this winter will have to use greater judgment than heretofore in the exchanging and spending of money, for the fall of the dollar has been to the disadvantage of the tourist. In the past few seasons, the American traveler has reaped the benefit derived from the exchange of his dollars for the depreciated c... continued here
Winter Cruises
Famous Italian Ocean Liners offer an outstanding program of WINTER CRUISES to the MEDITERRANEAN HOLY LAND EGYPT JAN. 27 . . . VULCANIA . . . 40 Days, 18 Calls. Remarkable Mediterranean-Adriatic itinerary including 8 full days at Trieste for visiting Northern Italy or Central Europe. Famous Cosulich liner calling at Madeira, Gibraltar, Algiers, Palm... continued here
The Rise of Pound Sterling and Franc
LONDON AND PARIS EXPLAIN THE RISE OF POUND AND FRANC THE gradual character of the upward movement in the principal European exchanges is less spectacular but, in the opinion of foreign observers, it is more significant than any spasmodic sudden rise would be. Last week the pound went up to $4.36, which is within sight of the par Value of $4.8665. ... continued here
1920′s U.S. Immigration Policies
Birth rates, death rates and migrations have caused the redistribution of sections of our population in the past and currently these forces are at work among our ethnic stocks. Among Negroes death rates are about one and a half times as high as among whites. Death rates are also higher for the foreign born than for native born whites, although the ... continued here
What is Dry Ice
WHEN some-one makes a lot of money from a simple, invention, one asks one’s self, “Now why didn’t I see the possibilities of that thing myself?” About fifteen years ago students saw a professor conduct an experiment before a physics class. Into a peculiar double-shelled vessel he emptied carbon-dioxide snow-white, clean, flu... continued here
Puncture Solutions
Believing that most tire punctures are caused by old nails, Greensburg, Kansas, offers ten cents per pound for all old nails picked up on its streets. Small boys have already earned two hundred dollars in this way. The city then sells the nails as junk. Giant magnets seven feet long are to be hung under State highway trucks in South Dakota to pick... continued here
Lindbergh Mail Problems 1927
COLONEL CHARLES A. LINDBERGH’S chief secretarial aide, Commander Fitzhugh Green, has made public the recently completed cataloguing of the popular flier’s mail. He states that Lindbergh has received 3,500,000 letters and 100,000 telegrams. Business offers totaled $7,000,000. One was an offer of $1,000,000 by a motion picture corporation... continued here
Introduction of 40 Hour Working Week
THAT man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow is a dictum of the Scriptures that has been pretty well abolished in America, where, in the main, he now acquires, not bread, but canned goods and package foods, by the oil on a machine. Mr. Thomas A. Edison is on record as saying that the machine does not begin to do what it should for the re... continued here