Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assigned a position in a police car on top of a neighboring hill, Nyhen and Morris served as the connecting station between City Hall, where relief direction centered, and the other operators working in the flooded district. They also relayed messages to outside stations giving the latest news from Haverhill...
...track waited a specially-built freight car. Flat and without sides, it was so cut down in the centre that its bottom was only 5^ in. above the rails. Its wheels were only 26 in. in diameter instead of the standard 33 in. A huge railroad crane lifted the mirror slowly to a vertical position, swung it clear of the trailer. Inch by inch it was lowered into the railroad car. For a half-hour it was allowed to settle comfortably into the recess. Then the New York Central Railroad man telephoned his home office that the loading was complete...
This week the mirror starts its journey west on a special train carrying a freight-car with equipment for unloading, and a caboose. The train will travel no faster than 30 m.p.h. Since it was impossible to provide a lateral clearance of 18 ft., the mirror had to be shipped standing upright. This raised the problem of overhead clearances. After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington...
...centre of this amazingly decentralized Westinghouse organization employing 35,000 workers sits Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson, a 56-year-old onetime school teacher who made his mark operating Pittsburgh's street car system. He stepped into Westinghouse in 1929. In the report last week President Frank Anderson Merrick joined Chairman Robertson in predicting: "Unforeseen events may change estimates for better or for worse; but, to the best of our judgment, 1936 should be a fairly prosperous year. We are making plans accordingly...
...Professors are worse drivers than their students," admitted Frank A. Goodwin, Register of Motor Vehicles in Massachusetts, as he went on to say that all the professors he had ever met had been so absent minded that he would never ride in the same car with them...