Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in spite of her smashed hip. A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and numbers...
...River-Los Angeles Aqueduct, chief engineer of the St. Francis Dam which collapsed in 1928, killed 400; following an apoplectic stroke; in Los Angeles. An Irish immigrant boy, Builder Mulholland went to Los Angeles in 1877, found it a city of 10,000 people, took a job as zanjero (ditch-tender), studied engineering, enabled the city to attain a million population as a result of his daring municipal water system. When the collapse of the St. Francis Dam caused $30,000,000 damage and the worst flood in California history, Builder Mulholland, deeply shocked, said: "If any human hand...
Indiana: city water main extension in Decatur; demolition of school building in La Porte County; construction of artificial lake in St. Bernice; construction of city athletic field in Mishawaka; construction of various low log dams in Morgan County; ditch repairing in Miami County; city library book repairs in Terre Haute...
...year-old chairman of Britain's Royal Arms Inquiry Commission (TIME, March 4), Sir John Eldon Bankes, last week watched his eminently dignified investigation skid off into the ditch of sensationalism. First a spokesman for 26 peace organizations uprose to charge that two members of the present Cabinet owned shares in the great munitions firm of Vickers: the Right Honorable Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary for the Colonies (25 shares); and the Right Honorable Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary (3,066 shares). "It cannot be healthy," said the peace spokesman, "if it is known that members of the Cabinet...
...Southern plantation system. In Georgia and Mississippi, approximately 70 out of every 100 farmers work somebody else's land as tenants or share croppers. The share cropper trades his services and those of his family for a shack and half the crop he makes, less 10? an acre ditch and road-maintenance fee, 10? on every dollar's worth of supplies bought at the plantation commissary (patronage obligatory) for "management fee," further deductions depending on the character of the landlord. It was estimated that the average cash income of a Southern share cropper and his family...