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Door Jam. In Rock Springs, Wyo., the judge who fined Cecil Jones for intoxication had to stand outside Jones's cell to do it: Jones had mistaken the lock on the door for a slot machine, jammed it full of nickels...
When Warren was first built it stood facing the Yard, where the Harvard Union is today. At the erection of the Union, however, it was moved lock, stock, and barrel to its present position...
When Michigan went ahead on its own, Federal soldiers chased the shovelmen away. In 1852 Congress relented-the discovery of the fabulous iron ore reserve of the region had been made. Since then the canal has been enlarged, new locks have been added: the Weitzel Lock (1881), Poe (1896), Davis (1914), Sabin...
...Army's Colonel Paschal Neilson Strong supervised construction of the new lock (writing the adventures of "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy" in his spare time); Chicago's Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. did the work...
...MacArthur Lock is not so long as the Davis or Sabin, but it is deep enough for the new 16,000-ton Maritime Commission ore carriers. It can be filled or emptied in six minutes. And it opens in a critical month in a critical year. A late spring delayed opening of the ice-choked St. Mary's River, whittled 8,000,000 desperately-needed tons of ore shipments. How much the MacArthur Lock increases Soo capacity is a military secret. But steelmen know the increase is enormous...