Word: handiworks
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...mangled, buried alive in the debris of stone houses that crumpled and knocked each other down like rows of toy soldiers. Though Bari on the Adriatic was shaken by severe tremors and many houses damaged, none was killed, none injured. Fascist engineers were proud, for modern Bari is their handiwork. They have converted a small sleepy fishing village into a great modern port (rival of Brindisi), laid out broad avenues and block after block of modern sanitary dwellings which with cracked plaster and sprung roofs were still safely standing last week...
...states- combined to protest any vote on sugar, lest, somehow, it be reduced below the possible maximum (3? per Ib.) set by the House Bill. A third section of the House - regular eastern Republicans - wanted the bill sent directly to conference without any voting which might alter their expensive handiwork. Among these contending forces, G. 0. P. leaders struggled to effect an agreement...
...continued satisfied with the proven fighting performance of its Vought Corsairs, Curtiss Hawks and Falcons, Boeing Navy F4-B's and Army P12's, all biplanes. Last week Boeing Airplane Co., supplanting Curtiss as chief purveyor of single-seater fighters to the government, announced its latest experimental handiwork: a high-wing, cantilever, all-metal, parasol type of fighting monoplane. Experts in touch with Air Corps destinies foresaw in this announcement the ascension of monoplanes, the supplanting of biplanes, in the U. S. air forces...
Providing this magnificent display were some of the richest, most potent names in U. S. finance. Their gardeners, the men who actually did the work, grew the plants, composed these living landscapes for New Yorkers to look at. were present all last week hovering anxiously over their handiwork. Reporters noted...
Last week Congressman Dyer surrendered all pride in his law. He considered it a failure. He did what few legislators ever do-offered a bill (H.R. 10423) to repeal his earlier handiwork. His reason: U. S. Judges under the Dyer Act are obliged to jail young boys for joyriding in borrowed cars across State lines while big commercially successful car thieves are escaping from U. S. enforcement agents...