Word: depot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock on St. Valentine's morning. Chicago brimmed with sentiment and sunshine. Peaceful was even the George ("Bugs") Moran booze-peddling depot on North Clark Street, masked as a garage of the S. M. C. Cartage Co., where lolled six underworldlings, waiting for their breakfast coffee to cook. A seventh, in overalls, tinkered with a beer vat on a truck. Two of the gang drifted aimlessly into the front office where ink wells stood dusty...
...after the Hemenway Gymnasium had been built, the Old Gymnasium was fitted out with laboratory equipment of the Engineering School. It has also been used as the Germanic Museum, storehouse, carpentry shop and paint shop. The building is now being used as a shipping depot of the University Press...
TIME readers, whose interests extend beyond the railroad depot, often travel upon the ocean. Aboard ship they are deprived of that pleasure of opening a crisp copy of TIME on the day that they know their fellow subscribers and newsstand buyers are getting theirs. For their knowledge of world events they must depend upon a typewritten sheet printed each night by the radio operator, posted in a prominent place the following morning...
...Ford F. Harvey, who is president of the firm that runs the Santa Fe dining cars and 24 hotels, 41 restaurants, 54 lunchrooms along the Santa Fe route. The original Fred Harvey, now dead, father of Ford F., began business in 1876 in a shed of a depot at Topeka, Kan. His succulent chicken and his eye-easy waitresses quickly made him the Cesar Ritz of the Southwest...
...Sullivan, keep out of the depot. It's too warm there...