Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children in the neighborhood of Kufstein will think that many a thunderstorm is brewing next summer, if thunderstorms mean to them that God is rolling barrels around in the sky. An organ whose echoes will be heard for miles around the valley is to be installed on the great rock of Geroldseck as an Austrian War Memorial. Contributions taken throughout Germany and Austria have paid for the building of the great instrument which will have 1,735 pipes rising above what will appear to be a miniature keyboard set 330 feet lower down on the rock...
Meanwhile Frank T. Crowe, hard-rock engineer who will superintend the actual construction of Hoover Dam, opened a Six Companies office at Las Vegas, Nev., the rail junction for the job. Then he proceeded across the mountain wastes to Black Canyon. Before Superintendent Crowe could start actual dambuilding, he had to do these things: 1) complete the 20-mile railroad from Las Vegas to Black Canyon rim over which all material must be lowered. 2) Construct Boulder City to house 2,500 workers and their families. 3) Build an eightmile, double-track, standard-gauge rail line from Boulder City down...
...sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed air and so absorb most of the shock. Since the boat will cruise at 3 knots during the 3,000 mi. under ice course of its Arctic journey, the danger...
Another of TIME'S well received and cheerfully acknowledged mistakes. Page 13, issue of Feb. 9, last column makes reference to J. J. Parker "Hoovercrat." 'Tis not thus. Judge Parker is an iron bound; rock ribbed; dyed in the wool; etc., Republican. Our "Hoovercrat," one of the few left of an 86,000 majority in 1928, is Frank R. McNinch of Charlotte, now on the Federal Power Commission. Both are esteemed citizens...
...Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue. He is now a member of the famed Manhattan law firm of [Elihu] Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine, specializing in public service and business organization law. For recreation he writes scholarly articles on taxation for law reviews, plays hard at fashionable Piping Rock Club...