Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work Done. The U. S. Representatives...
...Work Done. The U. S. Senators: ¶ Debated the resolution by Senator Walsh of Montana to investigate public utility corporations, their profits & policies (TIME, Dec. 26); voted 40 to 36 to send it to the Committee on Interstate Commerce...
...President Connolly decided that the sewer construction that had to be done in Queens was "the biggest job in the country." He told the civil service commissioners that he wanted "a man having peculiar knowledge of sewer construction" to boss the job. He said he had found just such a man in James Rice, a graduate of English Army schools, who had (according to Mr. Connolly) supervised more than $100,000,000 worth of sewer and road construction in the Far East and whose advice was constantly being sought by U. S. Sewer contractors...
...engineering way." After he had been bossing "the biggest job in the country" for three years, Chief Engineer Rice wrote a new feature into the specifications for Queens sewers. After this specification was inserted, sewer assessments soared. Taxpayers grumbled, politicians muttered about graft, but nothing was done until the past Autumn when Lawyer Henry H. Klein, representing a group of Queens taxpayers, charged that $8,000,000 had been "wasted" by the Queens sewer builders. It developed that the only kind of sewer pipe that would meet Chief Engineer Rice's specifications was a patented product for which...
...were the six survivors in the torpedo room not immediately safeguarded, when divers first reached the 54, by attaching airlines to the ship's "ears" (S. C. Tubes), as was done when too late, instead of to the ballast tanks, as was done at first...