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...railway station closed down because of the general business depression, threw hundreds of factory hands out of work. Kiyoshi Tanabe, a railway flagman employed at the plant, ate a large meal, drank quantities of water, then kilting his short cotton jacket about him swarmed up the silent factory chimney and sat on the top vowing that he would never come down till his fellow workmen were re-engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Chimney Sit | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...scribble. It's unconscious. Rounded lines indicate a gentle, tactful person; angularity tells of shrewdness. Flowers and leaves show a friendly, unassertive person. A head profile comes from the salesman type. Mussy scrawls are due to disordered, scrambled minds. The little house with smoke curling from the chimney is drawn by the lonely, sad, disappointed-in-love, childless person. You never scribble? Then your wish, desire, will, ability all flow into the same channel. ELISABETH THOMAS Graphologist Los Angeles, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

With the dismantling of the one remaining chimney well under way, the destruction of the Power Plant on Boylston Street is progressing rapidly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESTRUCTION OF THE POWER PLANT NEARS COMPLETION | 5/9/1930 | See Source »

...almost hear the gasp of the Oxford men as the boats went through the middle arch of the bridge. Along the straight half-mile past Mortlake Brewery to Stake Boars, little Swartwout's men were pulling away, an inch, then a foot at a time. Past the high chimney of Mortlake Brewery, Cambridge went in lovely style and over the finish line, sitting up straight, while Oxford, having rowed better than anyone thought they could, slumped over their oars in the traditional manner of beaten crews and splashed each other with water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oxford v. Cambridge | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

There is a two-Inch gap extending the entire length of the chimney wall to prevent water soaking through to the interior and causing a back draught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Derrick Swinging Weights in Pendulum Style, May Be Used to Demolish Smokestacks at a Single Blow | 3/26/1930 | See Source »

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