Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insides of a steam boiler in Chicago's Northwestern Station; the noise was terrific. A band was playing and some of the fellows and their wives were singing The Old Grey Mare and some more were singing Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here. Lean Jim Dowling bent over his tiny wife and yelled at her: "I'm not kidding. I'm just about sick with excitement. Think of all the wonderful things we're going...
...raise a family. On the first day of his freedom he dies in the arms of a girl of eleven who is placed in a house of correction where she dies in childbirth. Her infant son is placed in a foundling home where he is killed by a boiler explosion...
This week Weyerhaeuser proudly announced that it has developed products to use tree bark, thus utilize the 12% of a Douglas fir log that was formerly thrown away or burned as sawmill boiler fuel...
...electricity direct. How? Piles give their energy in a snarl of assorted forms: zig-zagging neutrons, high-speed beta particles, heat, light, gamma rays. Confined within the pile's thick shield, they all simmer down to heat, the most "degraded" form of energy. It takes the costly boiler-turbine-generator combination to "elevate" the heat into usable electricity...
...Foreign Ministers' Deputies, laboring in London over German and Austrian peace treaty drafts, last week had more brackets than boiler plate on their hands. "Boiler plate" (a U.S. newspaper term for ready-cast features) was how the U.S. staff referred to non-controversial provisions which the deputies simply lifted from the finished satellite treaties. "It's still in brackets" was the phrase used whenever the deputies indicated their disagreement by penciling brackets around a disputed passage...