Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quit, ordered 15 others to sign a pledge: "I hereby agree not to join any organization bordering on or pertaining to labor unions." Vexed, NLRB's Wisconsin Regional Director Nathaniel S. Clark vowed he would not be "buffaloed by a bunch of farmers," rooted out a Wagner Act section which makes interference with NLRB a penal offense...
...diameter, the tubes are bored by great circular "shields." Like the mouth of a great pipe, the shield is forced ahead by hydraulic pressure, cutting two feet eight inches at each thrust into sub-bottom deposit. Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping the river and its oozy bottom from rushing into the uncompleted tube is an air pressure of 28 pounds per square inch.* Air locks (pressure chambers) in concrete bulkheads permit workmen to enter and leave this high-pressure bubble by easy stages...
...feet from shore, fought hopelessly by sand hogs with hand extinguishers, firemen who braved the terrific pressure to attack it with hoses. After a grim night of defeat, tunnel engineers resorted to extraordinary tactics. Slowly, pound by pound, they began reducing the air pressure in the fire-swept section. Just as slowly, the air wall gave way and the river it had been holding out began to muck in. In half an hour, it half-filled the section, doused the fire...
Novel based on the wire service providing race-track information to poolroom bookmakers, with much whipped-up and unconvincing material on the size of the racket, and much melodrama on the attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...
...thereby getting enough cash to meet its interest payments. Exactly what PWA will do with its canal is still uncertain. According to present plans, it will turn the property over to National Park Service, which may restore the picturesque taverns and lock houses flanking the waterway. The 22-mile section between Washington and Point of Rocks, Md., it may turn into a boating and canoeing paradise. There were also rumors of an elaborate scheme to use part of the canal as right-of-way for a national highway between Washington and Gettysburg...