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With a whirring of gears, a set of spools turns, unrolling a sheet of printing paper against the negative. The technicians meanwhile spread the patented Polaroid chemical reagent-a viscous mixture they call "goo"-onto both sheets simultaneously. After passing between a pair of rollers, the sandwich of photographic papers is raised, by rope and pulley, toward the ceiling. Then the sandwich is lowered to the floor, and the negative is lifted off, revealing the huge full-color print. "It's nothing but a small Polaroid process made larger," says Technician Peter Bass...
...period, the line has suffered five physical mishaps, three of which caused shutdowns lasting a total of 13 days. The latest accident occurred last week when an earthmover burying part of the 48-in. pipeline struck a valve. That set off a gusher that spewed hot black goo over 15 acres of surrounding tundra and two ponds before technicians could shut down the line and begin repairs. As it happened, the line had just resumed limited operation after a ten-day shutdown caused by the most serious of its start-up accidents. At Pumping Station 8, 38 miles from Fairbanks...
...Boston consisted of several petty fiefdom controlled by ward-level political machines. Martin "Mahatma" Lomasney in the West End, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald in the North End, and James Michael Curley himself, patriarch of the South End, plundered the city despite the efforts of the Good Government reformers, the goo-goos. Frustrated because the dominant Irish voters consistently supported the machines, the goo-goos resorted to state intervention to attack corruption. One of the state-imposed safeguards was the Boston Finance Commission, a watchdog agency consisting of five Boston residents appointed by the governor "to investigate any and all matters...
...plundering pols have outlasted the goo-goos but the finance commission remains, with politicians claiming it is an anachronism and reform-minded observers calling it the city's only autonomous, institutional safeguard. Boston Mayor Kevin H. White abetted by the Boston City Council, is conducting a subtle campaign to vitiate the finance commission by slashing its budget under the guise of an austerity move. The finance commission, consisting of four volunteers and Chairman Andrea Wasserman Garguilo, whose salary is $5000 a year (the same salary the first chairman received in 1909), has a $121,000 budget to oversee...
Garguilo has alienated more politicians than her predecessor, performing her job as the goo-goos envisioned it 70 years ago. Fine served conscientiously but his sister-in-law works on White's staff and he is much closer to the mayor than Garguilo. Sullivan cited Fine as a fair chairman and it seems more than coincidental that Fine released a report on then-Suffolk County Sheriff Thomas S. Eisenstadt's misuse of county funds (to buy escargot servers among other things) when Eisenstadt was preparing to oppose White's reelection...