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...machine worked too well. When Vittoni & Vowels quit work for the day, they found they were snowbound. They called for help by radio, but rescue squads could not reach them. On the third day, engineers bulldozed through four-foot drifts and brought the snowmakers down to civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Much Magic | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...feet, the trucks stopped and dumped identical bundles of lumber, pipes, bricks, shingles and copper tubing-all as neatly packaged as loaves from a bakery. Near the bundles, giant machines with an endless chain of buckets ate into the earth, taking just 13 minutes to dig a narrow, four-foot trench around a 25-by-32 ft. rectangle. Then came more trucks, loaded with cement, and laid a four-inch foundation for a house in the rectangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Up from the Potato Fields | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...black-eyed peas, meats, light bulbs, soft drinks, laundry soap, fruit-jar caps, boxes of W. E. Garrett & Sons Sweet Mild Snuff, Ramon's Pink Pills, leaf twist tobacco, spools of J. & P. Coats thread and a hundred other items. As America's citizens gossiped around the four-foot, coal-fired iron stove, the talk was full of Christmas doings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Christmas in America | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Hand. In Leeds, England, police finally caught up with Burglar Robert Wooldridge, 94, after he had 1) cleared a four-foot wall, 2) jumped off a 14-foot embankment, and 3) scurried off into some bushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...stuffed animals smell one way or another," Barbara L. Schevill, curator of Mammals, reported yesterday. According to Miss Schevill, the four-foot cetacean was removed from the exhibition rooms when the sea-blue paint that covered it began...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Shrouds Spouter Ousting | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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