Word: reservoirs
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When it settles down, the hospital can hook up with a local electric system but it carries its own generating plant. It also carries a reservoir of 1,000 quarts of water. All the buildings contain portable hot-water radiators run by electricity, as well as small electric stoves. When time comes to move, everything folds up: the 350 iron cots with rope bottoms, the well-equipped doctors' offices, the dentist's office, the operating room, with its sterilization units, operating tables, instrument cases. Like a circus on the march, the hospital rolls off down the highway with...
Recently established by the Network, the Bureau aims to set up a reservoir of talent from which it may draw for its radio programs. All John Barrymores and Bob Hopes are especially welcome, but the Bureau will accept any form of entertainment. Previous experience will be an asset in the competition, but it will not be necessary for membership...
...City. According to her testimony she found him in her bedroom one evening when she emerged from a shower bath wearing only a towel, was raped thrice in various parts of the house, bound, gagged, threatened with a knife, taken for two automobile rides, finally thrown into an icy reservoir near which she was found hysterical. The Negro's defense was that she had invited his advances. A jury of six men and six women (one a native of Virginia) after over twelve hours debate acquitted...
...Plan. Britain's reservoir of man power, he explained, has now run "practically dry," and in order to fill war factories just coming into production, organization and restrictions must be imposed. In vital industries the right to dismiss employes, except for misconduct, will be removed from owners and managers. Employes may no longer leave their jobs without permission. People whom the Government considers to be in nonessential employment will be shifted, and nonessential industries may be temporarily suspended. Britain's women, Bevin declared, will also have to toe whatever line the Government draws, even if it means placing...
Commerce and Conservation. "In international trade a genuine interchange of materially needed commodities must take the place of a struggle for so-called favorable balance. . . . We must recover reverence for the earth and its resources, treating it no longer as a reservoir of potential wealth to be exploited, but as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we utterly depend...