Word: dams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SABOTAGE -Cleve F. Adams-Dutton ($2). Irishman McBride, who has practically no morals, gets interested in the repeated accidents at the Palos Verde Dam project. McBride robustly progresses through a tough town teeming with blondes, brunettes, fist fights, murders...
...route of the trip is as follows: from Cambridge to the Watertown dam, thence to Waltham, Auburndale, and the Newtons; thence to Newton Upper Falls to a point between Cow Island and Dedham Island where a short portage may be made; thence between Needham and Dedham northwest to Wellesley. It has not yet been discovered whether the waterway from Lake Waban to the river is large enough to permit navigation, but an investigation is under way to clear up this matter...
...them were already doing. Loyal Norse airmen, hearing of the Germans' approach, managed to spirit half of Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital's light & power. To join the loyal soldiers in their retreat, down from rural hills and valleys came farmers, woodsmen, householders, carrying rifles they had learned to shoot during the brief Army training which every Norseman receives. They were Norway's Minute...
When the delicate artery branches, or arterioles, tighten and dam up the flow of blood in the main arteries, this pressure is greatly increased. Some causes of hypertension : overactivity of the thyroid gland, emotional disturbances, an abnormally large volume of circulating blood, toxemias of pregnancy. Normal blood pressure increases with age, ranges from no to 135 for a normal adult male.* High blood pressure may climb...
Having moved his troops in, Governor Phillips did go to court, got a temporary injunction against the dam's completion. If the court makes his injunction permanent, said he, he will withdraw his soldiers. If not, he "will keep the troops on hand until the PWA puts the money on the line...