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...Panama Canal, Trans-Siberian Railroad, Boulder Dam, New York's subways, many U. S. railroads, were built with Marion shovels (now no longer steam, but electric & Diesel driven). Monster of the Marion line is a $450,000 strip coal mining shovel, which can scoop up 50 tons of earth, dump it on top of a seven-story building 226 feet away...
Last week Colorado's regents met in Boulder to pick a man for rugged Dr. Norlin's job. Now ill and 68, Dr. Norlin had insisted on retiring. After considering 67 candidates, finding some too rugged, some scornful of the $8,000 salary, the regents elected Dr. Norlin's protege, Robert Stearns...
...postage for Queens County, N. Y.; a five-year extension to the time-limit (Jan. 2, 1940) for War veterans' compensation claims; permission to the Atlantic Coast States to make compacts regulating fishing; a bill turning over to Nevada twelve square miles of U. S. land near Boulder...
Died. Dr. William Rothwell, 71, well-loved town character, who always paid the check at parties; of heart disease; in Pawtucket, R. I. His tombstone: a boulder inscribed ". . . This...
Many a Wall Street broker visualizes himself as a modern Sisyphus in a special kind of New Deal Hell: endlessly rolling a Business boulder up a WPA hill built too steep by Federal spending, sown too thickly with SEC hazards, watered so heavily with Federal supervision that the boulder continually slips out of his hands and rolls back into Depression...