Word: aqueduct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed undisturbed 22 months ago when he and Bove were charged with extorting $420,000 from contractors building New York City's 85-mile Delaware Aqueduct. Their attorneys delayed the case for months. When they finally went on trial in Manhattan this month, Joe Fay stayed tough, cold and collected...
Nero's buried villa at Anzio was explored in jigtime last week. U.S. Army officers had heard that the Emperor had built an aqueduct from his Anzio villa to Rome, 30 miles away. It might be a way to get behind the German lines...
...Venetian Blinds. Dr. Garfield had worked out his group medicine formula through medical care plans at the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Parker Dam and Imperial Dam projects before Kaiser hired him at Grand Coulee. He had found that complete medical care for workmen in their own hospitals could be financed by a 5?-a-day payroll tax plus a percentage of the industrial insurance premiums. The insurance companies were glad to chip in, as the good medical care cut compensation payments...
...means the first direct action taken by labor in Norway, the strike topped off a long series of incidents. In January a string of German warehouses were fired. In March the main aqueduct in Oslo was cut. The Germans have had repeated trouble keeping the important Bergen-Oslo railroad open. Mysterious fires, destroying German goods, continually break out all over the country...
...main aqueduct winds, climbs and burrows 242 miles across the State. Along the way, the water runs through 29 tunnels totaling 92 miles in length, five reservoirs, 62 miles of concrete-lined canals, 55 miles of covered conduits, 29 miles of siphons, five big pumping plants which lift the water a total of 1,617 feet over hills and out of valleys...