Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sewerage piping systems so old and faulty that when heavily taxed they would let waste from bathtubs and toilets siphon back into drinking water pipes. Water and sewer pipes were cross-connected. Sewers were leaky. Last June 29 a heavy rain overloaded sewers near the Auditorium, flooded its basement. Three days later another cloudburst broke two of the Congress' sewers, filled its ice storage house and covered its food-packed basement three to six inches deep with muck...
...delegation of A. F. W. representatives, Left Wingers not connected with the A. F. of L., had waited on him to protest the pending dismissal of one of their number for incompetence. Mr. Boomer, who got his start in the hotel business rolling barrels around the basement of a Manhattan Beach hostelry 35 years ago, said he agreed to review the case. Then two hours later his restaurant staff struck with out warning. Said he: "At no time has there been any question of dissatisfaction as to rates of pay, hours of work or other conditions of employment...
Although the Stoughton janitor paid for her upkeep last week, Sarah has refused to leave her lodgings in the basement of Harvard Hall. There she spends her days, in the bliss that comes from ignorance of lectures in the building...
What its delegates thought of the treaties and agreements they have made, the Seventh Pan-American Conference showed last week by breaking up at Montevideo in a manner remindful of harridans struggling over cut-rate stockings in a bargain basement...
...experts who have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly the correct figure." That Broadway, "once a street of comparatively modest tastes, of some show of decorum . . . has degenerated into something resembling the main drag of a frontier town. . . . Broadway has become a basement bargain counter...