Word: crushers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tough are the jaws of a rock crusher. They can masticate almost anything. Last week in Portland, Ore., they chewed up bottles containing $16,000 worth of liquor and roared contentedly as the stimulating fluid oozed forth. The whiskey, seized by the Government three years ago, had been the subject of a prolonged, legal fight. In the hour of triumph, the Women's Christian Temperance Union demanded a public doom for "the goods...
...week's end, the Sainte Marie, largest ice crusher in the world, swaggered over from the Strait of Mackinac, where she does regular winter duty. Like a burly policewoman, she pushed her way through crashing, shrieking ice to see what the trouble was. Where the pack was solid, she would back away, and, with a schlup and a slide and a scream of steam, she was high out of water, half on top of the ice. The ice would yield, like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed...