Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed bills for constructing, and extending time for constructing, sundry river bridges. (I Passed the bill amending the statute of limitations, to increase legal immunity (TIME, Dec. 26); sent. it to the President. ¶ Passed bills authorizing 25 millions to purchase for the U. S. a triangle of land in the District of Columbia (at Pennsylvania avenue and B street), and 100 millions more for Federal buildings outside of the District of Columbia; sent them to the Senate...
Nathan Hayward 95, president of the club, will tell of plans for entertaining the Associated Harvard Clubs which will meet on May 17, 18 and 19. At that time crew races will take place between present University eights on the Schuylkill River...
That was at a little after 9 o'clock. The boat moved up the river. A deckhand threw down his whiskey bottle and started for the galley; on the way he noticed a little fire that was burning brightly on the floor of a storeroom; the deckhand threw some charcoal on top of the flames and then went to look for the mate. By the time the mate saw the fire, it had crept farther; he stared in be wilderment and then spoke to the Captain through a tube. Suddenly every one on the General Slocum knew that the boat...
...flames reached Captain van Schaick but they did not kill him. He beached his burning boat 45 minutes after he had taken her out into the East River. Not quite 500 out of his 1,400 passengers were still alive; some of these had swum to safety...
...Carnegie Steel Co., was obliged to proceed violently against the steel employes. The company had ordered wages reduced. The workmen refused to work for less money and took possession of the steel 'works. The company hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades of steel billets and railroad ties, mounted a cannon on each side of the river and fired upon the detectives. The detectives returned the fire. The workmen poured oil on the barges and on the river, and prepared to set the oil afire...