Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clinton Hoadley Crane, 63, naval architect, mining engineer, president of Missouri's St. Joseph Lead Co. (largest U. S. lead producer); the William Lawrence Saunders medal, top award of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. Born to well-to-do parents in New Jersey, Clinton Crane was first captivated by sailing, designed small boats and yachts, won the Seawanhaka cup four times, built the motorboat Dixie in which he made a world speed record. After studying naval architecture in Glasgow, he designed U. S. warboats for Philadelphia's William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead...
Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is, that the tower was not built to house the bells. Strolling toward the House Plan one day, Mr. Crane, donor of the carillon, remarked to his companion, Mr. Lowell, that this tower would be a logical location for his gift...
...about a small waif (guess who) cast up by the sea on a lighthouse rock, and two ancient mariners, one of whom keeps the light and unofficially adopts Miss Temple (Guy Kibbee), and the other of whom (Slim Summerville) attempts to alienate her affections by giving her a dancing crane, whom Miss Temple most winningly mistakes for an old acquaintance, thinking him a stork. It is really startling to notice how engrossed one becomes in the ways of the tenuous plot. For example, when Shirley is taking the examination that is to decide whether she may stay with...
...track waited a specially-built freight car. Flat and without sides, it was so cut down in the centre that its bottom was only 5^ in. above the rails. Its wheels were only 26 in. in diameter instead of the standard 33 in. A huge railroad crane lifted the mirror slowly to a vertical position, swung it clear of the trailer. Inch by inch it was lowered into the railroad car. For a half-hour it was allowed to settle comfortably into the recess. Then the New York Central Railroad man telephoned his home office that the loading was complete...
...Rinehart ($2). Nine pseudo-people go through a summer of bright marital exchanges, puzzled drinking, and Connecticut's best boredom. NOT TOO NARROW . . . NOT TOO DEEP - Richard Sale - Simon & Schuster ($2). What might happen if Charles Rann Kennedy's Servant in the House were put into Stephen Crane's Open Boat with ten escaped convicts. The result will not even please Buchmanites...