Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of blowing up, "the thing" made production cheaper and permitted transportation over longer distances. The big Chicago turbine was replaced by larger ones, and the original shell was taken to General Electric's Schenectady plant to be placed on the lawn as a monument...
...Upon You." "We're All for Alfalfa Bill," said a scrawled note thrown out by the engineer of a Katy train speeding through Collinsville. Governor Murray was presented with a quilt on which had been embroidered his "Bread, Butter, Bacon, Beans" slogan. Unveiled was a 16-ft. monument in his honor, with a large photograph embedded under glass and inscribed: Born in Collinsville...
...arrival of a little yellow post card has just reminded me that there is a Class Administration. In fact, these annual ballots are the only apparent phenomena of that august body, and will pass on to posterity as the chief monument to its existence...
...Following his address, the President will march out to the east steps of the Capitol to lead the singing of "America" by 10,000 massed voices accompanied by three bands and conducted by Walter Damrosch. The composite result will be broadcast. There will be afternoon exercises at the Washington monument, a ball in the evening for which the costumes were designed by one Anne Washington. Once under way, the Bicentennial celebration will be the occasion for protracted and unprecedented patriotic adulation, artistic and otherwise...
News last week got out of the Blue Ridge foothills about a country doctor's monument to his kind. Dr. Henry Boardman Stewart, 77, has been practicing in & around Fair View, S. C. (pop. 45) for 51 years. He has been the sponsor of the Fair View Stock Show, county fair which had its 43rd session last October. Last: summer old Country Doctor Stewart caused the erection of a three-ton granite slab. Carved on one end is his name as donor, at the other end is a doctor's satchel. The front is "dedicated to the memory...