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Word: conduite (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons of structural steel framework (which were thoroughly coated with bright aluminum paint), almost the whole plant is made of aluminum -three miles of wall paneling, 2,000,000 square feet of roof sheeting, 500,000 square feet of window sash, 1,340 miles of wiring, 98 miles of conduit and 6,800 lighting fixtures, all surrounded by the longest aluminum fence (four miles) ever made. Even the 112 workers' homes outside the fence are built of aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Shining Example | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Mother Moscow's city fathers were working to get her in shape for a formal presentation to history. Streets were repaved, automobiles were ordered specially polished and passengers with overly bulky bundles barred from the elegant subway. Even the underground river Neglinka, got a new concrete conduit in place of the old wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Third Rome | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...expert signal men from the companies have recently succeeded in rigging an extension of the P.A. system now employed by Co. C. The task was complicated to some degree because the wire running from McKinlock Hall across the street to Mather Hall had to be led brough a steam conduit connecting the two buildings beneath the street. Bugle alls and occasional announcements made a A company will now be heard by the men in the new companies adjacent...

Author: By Sgt. DOUGLAS D. macdonald, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

...message for them all to their Commander in Chief: "Dear Mr. Roosevelt: Our P-40 is full of holes. Please send us a new one." In Washington Congress proposed a Congressional Medal of Honor for Douglas MacArthur, considered naming a projected TVA dam and a Washington boulevard (now Conduit Road) in his honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MACARTHUR AND HIS MEN | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...electrical workers picketed the Triangle Conduit & Cable Co. in Flushing, L. I., then President John McAuliffe's house, then his country club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1940, The First Year of War Economy | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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