Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that in that city an association of leading engineers had been formed to erect (in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution) a great museum of engineering progress in transportation, and industry. The prize design may be chosen for Washington. It differed from all others in one feature. The great steel shaft over the central portion of the 'building made an integral part of the design, and might be useful as a mooring-mast for aircraft or radio purposes...
Palestine. Prof. R. A. Stewart Macalister, continuing his excavations at Jerusalem (TIME, Dec. 31), found a cave with a shaft leading down to a spring, the significance of which was explained by Prof. James A. Montgomery, of the University of Pennsylvania. It was part of one of the most amazing engineering triumphs of ancient times ?the water system of Jerusalem. In the reign of David and before, this very arid region was believed to have been wholly dependent for water on the Spring of Gihon, near the base of the hill on which the ancient city was built. Pumps...
...approved the steel shaft for all championship tournaments. The steel shaft actually affords no advantage over the hickory; but the rapid growth of the popularity of golf was said to have forced some dishonest manufacturers to use unseasoned hickory; and the Association, after exhaustive tests, decided to approve the steel shafts, recommended by its Implement and Ball Committee, in order to eliminate the necessity of buying from unscrupulous dealers...
...requirements of $14,000,000 as a result of its acquisition of American Brass. Except for its newly acquired Chile Copper Co. properties, Anaconda is a high-cost producer, and with the red metal selling about 15% below even the 1913 price, cannot expect to operate its old deep-shaft mines at much, if any, profit. With such companies as Kennecott, Chile, Utah or Miami, the lower costs of production make present copper prices more profitable...
...Senator Caraway of Arkansas, Democrat, who is leading in these senseless attacks, has shot his shaft against me repeatedly in the past, before the oil matter came up. I do not care to dignify it by discussion. But in general terms I will say that the charges by Caraway or anybody else that I received compensation from outside interests for anything I did in my official capacity in serving the country, or any innuendo that, directly or indirectly, I got money or other consideration, or expected to do so, is absolutely false...