Word: culverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They rigged up a tent, pitched it each night in Palisades Interstate Park, struck it at dawn to avoid arrest for vagrancy. George picked up odd jobs. When the tent began to fall apart and bad weather set in last week, the Umbachs moved to a 4-ft. cement culvert that drains rainwater from the Palisades slopes into the Hudson...
...Starling's job (he is a Kentucky Governor's colonel ) is the delicate and critical one of being advance man on Presidential trips. He not only examines any room which the President is to enter, but the rooms above and below, all entrances and exits. Every culvert, bridgehead and tunnel through which the President is to pass bears his inspection. His vigilance has often been rewarded. After he for bade President Harding to board an Ohio river boat, the boat sank. A platform he prevented Herbert Hoover from mounting to make a speech collapsed, gutted by termites...
...after and my dishes are at the sink. "Don't think I'll go, the children would not take their naps this afternoon," says the Mrs. The Chewy goes at the second turn of the starter and I'm out over the cattle guard and the culvert over the first irrigation ditch. Over a second, third and fourth, all graded as the ditch beds are above the valley here. Now to step on it. First mile gone, slow down for another grade culvert, the second mile nearly a straightaway. Indian wagon raising an infernal dust is soon...
Commonly accepted report was that a Boettcher friend had tossed $60,000 ransom across a railroad culvert near Denver. Banker-Father Claude K. Boettcher refused to admit that the ransom had been paid, though he did say that "all obligations were fulfilled...
...them. Early in the afternoon it began raining. Creek beds that had been white and dry all summer became lashing rivers. Oldtimers in the small towns along the canyon sensed high-water and set out for high ground. Sixty tramps on a freight train which had sided on a culvert grew restive as the sound of rushing water grew into a mighty roar. When the flood broke, a 45-ft. wall of water tore down the creek bed. Houses were knocked topsy-turvy by great boulders, signals were cracked from their bases. The sided train was lifted from the tracks...