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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High in the gusty November sky, painting the top of the 165-ft. smokestack of the Wagner Brewery at Granite City, Ill., Steeplejack Bert Bareiter looked down and saw that the wind had fouled his hoist rope around a guy wire 60 ft. below. He climbed down hand over hand to untangle the rope. At this point occurred a horrifying industrial accident, followed by a notable act of industrial heroism...
...radioactive material in the ground. If this were so, the radiation should have fallen off markedly at short distances above ground. By carrying instruments up in balloons, Hess, Gockel and Kolhörster killed off the terrestrial radioactivity theory. In 1911 Hess made seven flights to 3,000 ft., found no decrease in the rays whatever. Later, nearly six miles up, he found them seven times stronger than on the ground. "A radiation of very high penetrating power," he wrote, "enters our atmosphere from above...
Crossing from the San Francisco side, the motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist...
...summer's end, but Gumarsol left his trailer there all winter, returned last summer to live in it again. Last month, angry owners of nearby real estate brought suit, charging that he was violating a village ordinance by living in a dwelling with less than 400 sq. ft. of floor space. Gumarsol retorted that his trailer was licensed as an automobile accessory. Legally, the case thus hinged on a single local law. But all participants admitted that it pointed up the greater issues of whether trailers should be taxed as personal property or as realty, and whether trailerfolk...
Bath Iron Works's 1927 rejuvenation coincided with the lushest yacht-building era in U. S. history. First big contract was a 240-ft. job for Ernest Blaney Dane of Brookline, Mass. Hiram Edward Manville's 266-ft. Hi-Esmaro was built by Bath Iron Works. So was Hugh Joseph Chisholm's 244-ft. Aras and Eldridge Reeves Johnson's 279-ft. Caroline. Biggest yacht contract Bath Iron Works ever got was for J. P. Morgan's fourth Corsair, which was launched in the dark days of 1930 amid a fusillade of anonymous letters threatening...