Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grey curtains of rain trailed over the slates and chimney pots of London as the night-before-Coronation fell. Under the square miles of rooftops, in the slums and swank mansions, in suburban villas and the fine hotels, "Coronation" was the word most often on every lip as Greater London's 8,000,000 inhabitants, plus at least 1,500,000 visitors from the provinces, from the Dominions and colonies, from the U. S. and from every country in Europe, Asia, South America, even from the larger States of India and tribes of British Africa, all thought and spoke...
Last week, to Newark's fury, Mayor LaGuardia finally won a skirmish in his fight to have a home field supersede Newark Airport as Manhattan's main air terminal. Fortnight ago he personally detonated the dynamite which felled a power-house chimney which was the only approach hazard at Floyd Bennett Field. Last week this improvement finally persuaded an important airline to try Floyd Bennett; American Airlines inaugurated a "summer service" of one plane a day from Floyd Bennett to Boston. American's eight other Boston flights will still start from Newark and all will terminate there...
According to Chief John J. Darvis of Engine Company 15 the first fire was caused by wooden studding which had been built too close to a defective chimney leading up from a restaurant below. The blase, which never got beyond a suffocating smudge, was quickly controlled...
...Chimney Causes Second Outbreak...
...second fire broke out in a type-writer-renting office directly below the room that was the scene of the afternoon's blaze. Chief Herman E. Gutheim, head of the Cambridge forces, said that the same defective chimney caused both fires...