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...trainmen grumbled that the strike was over-without all demands won. But all over the nation, just as quietly as they had climbed down, men in faded blue overalls now mounted their cabs again. Trainmen went back to work. The gloom in roundhouses was brightened by the sudden yellow glare from fire doors. By midnight, on almost all the 337 strikebound roads, locomotives drummed through the darkness with throttles back and Johnson bars in the corner. More slowly, freight trains took up their grinding journeys. In railroad stations lines reformed at ticket windows. Baggage appeared; redcaps toiled. The Government turned...
...submerged the launching platform. Slowly the rocket rose, so slowly and lazily at first that it seemed to be suspended by an invisible chain. It picked up speed, roared higher & higher, trailing a 60-ft. plume of brilliant flame. Up, up it climbed, its roar diminishing with distance, its glare contracting until it looked like a bright orange star. Then it vanished, leaving a thin trail of smoke behind...
Thompson recommends: 1) "focal walls"-catching pupil attention by painting the facing wall a darker or lighter value than the side walls; 2) "glare minimization"-equalizing lights and shadows by painting window walls in brighter colors than the opposite walls; 3) "correct room orientation"-cool colors (blue and green) for rooms with west or south exposures; warm colors (red, orange, yellow) for those with east or north exposures...
...Mina's reception over, the Aleman caravan set out again in the midday glare, the candidate's black Cadillac sedan at its head. When the procession reached the end of the International Highway's hard surface, construction gangs served mezcal, drunk with maguey worm salt. Thereafter the road became a mule path that dipped into canyon beds, clung to mountainsides. The sun grew hotter, the dust thicker; passengers climbed out to lighten loads. In streams-shallow at the dry season-drivers parked to cool their tires...
...time, in other respects, was not kind to Greenwich. Like an ugly fungus, London crept around King Charles's royal park. The city's smoke blinded the telescopes, corroded metal parts, covered lenses with soot. Electric railways interfered with magnetic observations. Worst were street lights, whose glare outshone the Milky Way. Only British astronomers could have hung on so long...