Word: basements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first floor and basement will be turned over to the use of the Library where various miscellaneous activities now carried on behind the scenes in Widener will find place. Book bindings, cataloguing of unclassified works and the storage of some few volumes, duplicate books, or books that have lost any value in the Library, will be located on these floors. Many of the old or duplicate books will be temporarily placed here before their sale to second hand dealers or miscellaneous buyers...
That fatal morning was not yet over. At 11:35 in the basement of the Cleveland Clinic, at 93rd Street and Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, a stock of X-ray films exploded. At that hour there were 234 people in the building. Within 15 minutes about 100 of them were dead, with many more dying...
...first the origin of the explosions was believed to have been the X-ray room where twelve bodies were found. Later it was placed in the film storage room in the basement. On the morning of the disaster one Buffery Bogg, steamfitter, had been called to repair a leaking steam pipe. He found the leak in the film room and removed a section of the covering, but the pipe was too hot to work on. So he went out and asked to have the steam turned off. When he returned the room was filled with steam. Something on the ceiling...
...recent years a nonexplosive cellulose nitrate type acetate X-ray film has been developed, but the films in the clinic were evidently of the more common and highly inflammable cellulose nitrate type. Under writers recommend that films be stored in metal vaults on the roof rather than in the basement of buildings...
Despite the "impressively negative" popular vote, Swiss Drys gained one victory last week. Unknown individuals have ordered the cocktail bar in the basement of the League of Nations Secretariat to remain closed each day until 12 noon...