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...different types at work about the buildings, which reach, as a whole, at their peak, to over 300. This includes 90 to 110 men on the grounds crew, 70 to 100 painters, and 50 to 100 carpenters, as well as many other specialists, such as window washers and chimney cleaners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Board Walks Require Crew of 25 Men Over a Week To Place Them--Maintenance Staff Keeps 300 Men Busy | 12/8/1932 | See Source »

...pilot's seat while the instructor eased down into it. In doing so she was whirled against the cabin door, which flew open. Her foot caught in a safety strap, saved her. Pilot Copeland pulled the plane safely out of the spin about 100 ft. above the chimney tops-so low that 700 persons telephoned a crash alarm to police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Girl v. Tomcat | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...Hamilton, Bermuda, William Leach suddenly left his armchair to get a book. Just then a bolt of lightning came down the chimney, destroyed the chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Couplet | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...said at first that Thomas Bat'a's private plane had collided with a chimney of his plant, but when the mist cleared the chimney was seen to be unscarred. Some other cause produced the crash, the muffled explosion, the sudden burst of flame amid which died both Thomas Bat'a and an ace pilot who had flown him successfully around the whole of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: End of Bat'a | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...Victorian London street, introduces them to as engaging a troupe of well-to-do householders as ever went to market to buy fat pigs. Memories of their sooty black houses, architecturally linear and flat, are prettily three-dimensionalized by little whirlwinds of domestic perturbations spiralling, like smoke from the chimney-pots, above every roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hereditary Environment | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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