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...effort to brighten up austerity-ridden Britain, the Southern Region of the state-owned railway system devised a pub-on-wheels (bar car) which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
...bystanders began to eye the damage. At first the damage looked ruinous. Tons of brick and rubble had cascaded down off old" buildings near Seattle's Pioneer Square, smashing parked automobiles. Great chunks of stonework had been flipped off the state capitol buildings at Olympia. Store fronts and brickwork in dozens of towns had collapsed, a radio tower had snapped, and hundreds of buildings showed cracks in walls and floors...
Buzzing bees in Sanders Theatre's brickwork threw the maintenance department into confusion, taxed the College treasury, and necessitated the demolishment of a wall yesterday...
...Bird Key. Fort Jefferson is a deserted ruin. The Navy took it over during the Spanish-American War, spent $800,000 on a coaling station and other improvements, abandoned it. Since then Cuban and U. S. fishermen have carried away everything of value. The moat and some of the brickwork are intact but the rest is a shambles of stripped roofs, crumbled walls, tangled beams and ironwork, Carved and scribbled everywhere are visitors' names, initials, wisecracks. This appalling ruin, a fortress which never traded shots with a single enemy, President Roosevelt last week declared a National Monument...
...looked up to see the Library's whole massive-beamed roof crashing down on his head. The avalanche of masonry, bursting through the vaulted ceiling of the great Salone Sistino above, smashed into the gaily painted reference room on the ground floor. The walls, six feet of solid brickwork, stood firm...