Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...F. D. FROST...
...F. CUFF...
Last week, for the 27th time, Death came to a Moffat Tunnel workman. King F. Weston and E. J. Shepard were carrying a burned-out electric motor when Mr. Weston leaned against an open switch, crumpled, died. Mr. Shepard slipped, crushed his leg beneath the motor...
...make sure, and then said, with great respect: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it?" Or, "I don't s'pose you remember me, Mr. Stevens, but I'm. . . ." One of the oldtimers went to the telephone and rang up Balboa. When his train reached Balboa, John F. Stevens, onetime chief engineer of the Panama Canal, was welcomed at the station by Colonel Meriweather Walker, Governor of the Canal Zone...
...successor, General George Washington Goethals, who "put the Canal through." And indeed General Goethals did: he conquered that greatest foe of his predecessors, yellow fever, so that the blue prints might come true. But to the blue print aspect of the Canal no man contributed more than John F. Stevens did during his regime, from June, 1905, to April, 1907. Before he resigned President Taft had named him "Father of the Panama Canal...