Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solid rock in the canyon walls four tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert temporarily the Colorado's flow 4.000 ft. around the dam site. 5) Erect a temporary dam upstream to turn the river into the tunnels and another downstream to stop backwash. Only then will the bed of the Colorado be laid bare and dry to receive the foundation, 600 ft. thick, of Hoover Dam. Power to operate all machinery must be led in from 200 miles away in California...
...consul at Nice, Robertson Honey, escorted the Swedish nurse when she brought fresh linen to make up Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger's bed in jail. In Paris the lawyer who handled Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger's last divorce coined an impromptu epitaph: "He always found married life extremely difficult. But he found it impossible to live alone...
Eighty-four-year old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison last week visited Rubber-man Harvey Samuel Firestone's Miami Beach plantations, went to bed with a new invention, the "de-humidifier," in his room-a machine to abstract moisture from the air, lessen humidity fatigue. Mr. Edison arose beaming, described the apparatus as not yet ready for the market...
...check-up on Sir Oswald's personal cars revealed last week that his Bentley speedster is in a French garage, smashed up. His roaring Mercedes is ready for him the moment he hops out of bed. Herr Adolf Hitler also rides a Mercedes...
...Wyngarden was struck in the eye by a stray bullet while hunting. He went to Ann Arbor for treatment, found he might lose the sight of both eyes. Then he was stricken with appendicitis, underwent an emergency appendectomy. Then, while Gerrit Wyngarden was recovering, his wife was brought to bed of a child, died. Next day his chicken hatchery, sole means of subsistence, burned to the ground...