Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income was going into building factories and machines, a smaller share into wages and the purchase of food & clothing. According to one economic theory, this condition tends to cause depressions. To counteract this tendency the Federal Government would give up building steel bridges and concrete dams, and turn to earth dams, channel dredging and other projects where most of its money would go into wages that would be spent for consumer goods...
...problems put up squarely to engineering science was that of landslides at the east bulwark. Last year while the excavators were scooping earth from a large gulch that runs 175 ft. below the low water surface of the river, 200,000 cu. yd. of clay began to slide down at the rate of two feet an hour, faster than the power shovels could get it out. The contractors were faced with a delay of several weeks and an additional excavation cost of $200,000. The engineers decided to try an old trick invented in Prussia but never before used...
...tunnels was discarded as too expensive and too risky, and cellular coffer dams of sheet steel were built to keep the river out of the excavation area. Three weeks ago one of these crumpled and water poured through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons of the puffy paste were poured into the breach and the flow of invading water shortly ceased...
...Hornell, N. Y. last week two seagulls flopped helplessly to earth in the business district, their wings so coated with ice they could not fly. Thawed out by a game warden, they were soon sent on their way. Also last week, the misadventure which overtook two of Nature's best flying mechanisms overtook one of Man's best flying mechanisms 200 miles as the gull flies southwest of Hornell. Just outside of Pittsburgh, a twin-motored Douglas DC2 crippled by ice flopped helplessly to earth killing 13 people in 1937's third major air disaster...
...shore. Agent Gray believes that so many ships have foundered there that the point is almost completely girt with an assortment of hulls, boilers, engines and at least one complete submarine sunk during the War. Agent Gray suspects that this mass of iron distorts the lines of earth magnetism so that ship compasses are swung fatally askew...