Word: depots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upon learning that an epidemic of scarlet fever caused a quarantine of schools in Genesee and Genesee Depot, Wis., whence Chicago gets several thousand quarts of certified milk each day, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Niels Bundesen last week summarily forbade Genesee milk to enter Chicago...
Georgia: malaria control in Dublin; clearing woodland in Cairo; converting a depot into a common house in Wrens; opening, clearing and straightening the channel of Tanyard Stream in Barnesville; a fertilizer plant in Catoosa County; repairs on court house in Donalsonville; paving sidewalk in Tallapoosa; sanitation pit project of 400 units in Cairo; renovation of school in Blakely; bridge in Thomson; road improvement in Trenton...
...Paul's Union Depot an engine breakdown prolonged for a half-hour the tears, bustle and confusion of departure. Most families had killed their pets, thinking they were not allowed to take them along, but a few had dogs or cats and one woman had a canary. Having come from rented or foreclosed farms, most families were traveling light. Typically, the Clyde Cooks had only a stove. Their two attractive daughters, aged 16 and 18, were broken-hearted at leaving old friends behind. But the five boys, aged 2 to 14, were primed for adventure...
...Last week one Morris Baron, a greyish little ex-tailor who had been on home relief for three years, rushed into a Manhattan relief depot, screamed: "I want you should buy my wife a dress. Other women get Easter dresses. My wife she wants one. The city should buy her a dress." Thrown out by a policeman, he returned after ten minutes, shrieking: "Down with everything! Home relief, phooie!" Six policemen were summoned to carry him to jail...
American Houses, Inc. describes its product as "a machine in which to live." The four-room unit on display cost $3,800 complete, including erection within 100 miles of New York. Shipped by truck from the company's distributing depot, the parts are put together in two weeks under the expert eye of a company superintendent. A local building crew sinks a shallow concrete foundation (there is no cellar), erects a steel frame. Then the walls, consisting of 4-ft.-by-10-ft. panels, are bolted together with long strips of aluminum which give a modernistic effect...