Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...message came from the President ("a fine job well done"). Tall, white-haired Supervising Engineer Frank A. Banks spoke; an engineer turned water into the turbine of Number Two Genera tor; another adjusted the generator's speed, a third, voltage. A round dome top-light began burning. Construction Engineer A. F. Darland, grey-haired veteran of dams, watched the dial of a gauge to check the moment the generator syn chronized with others at Bonneville, 450 miles downstream. When the arrow stood straight up he slammed the switch. Coulee's power was linked...
...Buckner, 63, member of the potent Manhattan law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, one of the great trial lawyers of his time, who as U. S. District Attorney for southern New York during Prohibition years gained fame by padlocking Manhattan speakeasies, prosecuting former Attorney General Harry (Teapot Dome) Daugherty, sending Earl (Vanities) Carroll to Atlanta for giving false testimony to a Federal grand jury about publicly tubbing a show girl in champagne; after brief illness; in Manhattan...
...Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall lay in an Albuquerque hospital recovering from pneumonia, the famed 1,000,000-acre Three Rivers Ranch in New Mexico, on which Secretary Fall said he spent the $100,000 bribe which he took from Oilman Edward L. Doheny in the Teapot Dome scandal, was sold for a dude ranch...
London has seen it this bad only once since the Great Fire of 1666-month ago when the first great incendiary raid burned out blocks of the City, made night day and framed the dome of historic St. Paul's in a thick drapery of acrid smoke. Since then London has learned how to deal with the blazeblitz. The secret is to douse each bomb within a minute or two. The entire male civilian population between 16 and 60 has been conscripted for fire fighting. When the incendiaries fall, crackling into blue and rose-colored flares, crowds of householders...
...heat. Fleet Street, mecca of British journalism, was badly hit, and behind it stood the blackened hulk of the Associated Press building. St. Bride's white spire, Wren's "madrigal in stone," stood alone over the ruins of the church. Supreme amid wreckage rose the great dome of St. Paul's, saved through the devotion of scores of clerks, journalists and professional men who kept a 24-hour vigil over it. Guarding every foot of the roof, they extinguished firebombs as they landed and doused flaming cinders blown by the wind...