Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class 1 repair is a new boiler. Class 2 is a new firebox. Class 3 are the more frequent general repairs to machinery, firebox, tires or flues...
...Burned under a steam boiler, coke, coal or natural gas produces flue gases which are largely carbon dioxide. These are purified, piped into steel cylinders weighing 20 to 50 lb. Under pressure of 1,400 lb. per sq. in., the gas liquefies, forms the product known as liquid carbonic...
...Babson is a nice gentle man. He receives great publicity and has a large following but he has no academic standing." Convicted with Yalemen Mason & Garland was as pretty a crew of stock-jobbers and boiler-shop operators as ever hooked a widow, including Dave ("The Duke") Durbin, whose sales aids were white spats, a Japanese chauffeur and a Cadillac V16. One of the ablest was a handsome fellow named Walter M. Barr whose specialty was rich old ladies...
...operations might be included, which was presumably the reason for their refusal to bid. Reason they finally got the business was that the law permits suspension of the rules in an "emergency," a state which apparently exists when the Navy lacks copper. Another "emergency" may arise shortly because of boiler plate...
...merry widow of Weymouth isn't the only one who has gone to pieces over the strewing of anatomical members hither and yon in Boston harbor. Probably since the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, or at least since Jessic Costello cleaned her boiler, Boston has never had such a good time in its traditional macabre manner. But the current scavenger hunt for the missing "mutilated torso" has them all beat for journalistic interest. It is certain that if Charles Dickens were living today his words would be, "Oops, there goes Mrs. Asquith's head again!" The different angles from which...