Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...narrow streets of the mill city of Fall River, Mass. Frazzled textile workers were trudging into cinema theatres. Clerks were taking off their shoes, preparatory to reading the newspapers, while their wives washed the supper dishes. Unnoticed, a fire broke out in the abandoned mill of the Pocasset Manufacturing Co. on the edge of the business and theatrical district...
...young men started removing papers from the City Hall. Police stopped them. Salvation Army workers served coffee and sandwiches to the firemen. The Elks held open house. All through the night firemen pushed back the crowds, fought the flames. They used a fourth of all the water in Fall River's great reservoirs...
Next morning, black, jagged walls, crumbled ruins, ice-covered fire trucks greeted sleepy eyes. But the Fall River Globe, which had been printed in nearby Taunton, also appeared. "CITY STUNNED" said black headlines. The editorial began: "Fall River Faces Front...
...damage was estimated at $20,000,000. " Strangely enough, no one was killed; only a few suffered serious injuries. But 3,000 people were thrown out of work in a city of 150,000 population where wages had already been cut to the danger point (see p. 35). Fall River started building itself up again: There was prospect of more work. The whistles of 29 locomotives were screaming one afternoon last week. Their cords had been caught in the fallen timbers of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.'s roundhouse and shops of Connellsville, Pa., while fire...
...narrow, shaggy valleys of Vermont, where flood waters boiled three months ago, a train of seven Pullman cars climbed, last week, from St. Albans near Lake Champlain to Waterbury in the Green Mountains. Thence it descended, with a 45-minute stop at Montpelier, the State capital, to White River Junction on the New Hampshire borderline. Cheered at way-stations, drowned in noise at cities, it was a symbol of Vermont's recovery from her catastrophe of last autumn, the first through train over the State's main artery of transportation, the Central Vermont R. R. Among the officials...