128 The Stock Market Crash—And After 
always be raised to develop inventions, and the 
process usually adds to the volume of debt including 
brokers’ loans. 
In the same paper there is the announcement of 
a new all-air line between New York and Los 
Angeles, spanning the continent in thirty-six hours. 
On another page is a report that in Poland a rivet- 
less bridge has been constructed by a new process 
of welding. There is also the news account of: the 
distillation of coal to make fuel oil. An expert 
announces that the railroads are saving coal; one 
line uses 70 pounds now to 170 pounds used ten 
years ago. 
There is the recent announcement of the front 
drive car that is “pulled, not pushed” by its engine. 
There is the announcement by S. T. Bloom, a consult- 
ing engineer, of Chicago, that important new appli- 
ances in refrigeration will soon result in the quick 
freezing of retail meat-cuts, fruits, vegetables, dairy 
products—in fact, of every perishable foodstuff, and 
that office buildings, hotels, large stores, and even 
homes will soon be refrigerated in summer as they 
are heated in winter. Cornstalks have been recently 
utilized to make pulp for the production of news- 
print paper, and now the chemists at the University 
of Illinois announce that the refuse from this process 
may be turned into gas for use on farms. A system 
of television is being adapted for broadcast service 
in the homes. 
The largest and most powerful oil-electric loco- 
motive in the world, a hurtling power plant, with-