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After a full hour of hallooing down empty corridors and stacks, the despairing undergraduate dialed KI 7-7600 by the light of a match. Within seconds after the man at the other end heard their tale, warning gongs inside Widener began to clang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trapped in Widener's Bowels, Scholars Dial Matchlit SOS | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...strapping young bucks from Indian reservations had the time, the money, and the inclination to go off on a hard-drinking tear every now & again although federal law prohibits sale of liquor to Indians. One night last October, roaring drunk, the four got caught up in the wheeze and clang of Idaho's legal machinery and almost mangled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: The Case of the $12 Sheep | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...best seen after dark when great batteries of floodlights poured a spurious noontide over the rising, mile-long ramparts of fresh concrete. Listening to the clang and roar of machinery out in the blazing night, skeptics railed at the whole fantastic scene. Many were convinced that there would be small use for the dam's electricity, that only one generator -a little one-would be installed, and that the vast pile would be left, peeping away to itself down through the ages, like a stranded whale with a peanut whistle in its nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Land of the Big Blue River | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Tengo una vaca lechera No es una vaca cualquiera, Tolon, tolon, talon, tolon. (I have a milk cow, She is no common cow . . . Clang, clang, clang, clang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Musical Landlord | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...that many result from noisy working conditions. Such defects, Hargrave argues, reduce efficiency, impair health and affect the workers' home life. The source of his data: 2,549 workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard (now closed) whose cornmandant had invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing had no trouble with common shop talk, e.g., such words as blower, rivet, steel. But unfamiliar words spoken by strangers were unintelligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quiet, Please! | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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