Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shaft and the flash wait, but are not yet found...
...test shafts to determine the nature of the soil have been sunk on the Oxford Street property which has been designated as a projected site for the new chemistry laboratory. The first shaft was driven to a depth of 23 feet and for two-thirds of the distance, a stratum of heavy gravel was encountered, admirably suited for a foundation. During the last seven feet, water was struck in a layer of very fine sand and a pump was necessary to keep the shaft...
...explosions were 'ready and frequent.' Beginnings along this line of dust fuel for combustion engines were demonstrated at last year's Chemical Industries Exposition in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12). The original discovery was made when a grain elevator was once blown to the top of its shaft by the spontaneous combustion of dust at the bottom. The detail to be solved before automobiles may run on chaff: a continuous, measured fuel-feed system. Many people were struck by the fact that only last week the Foos Gas Engine Co. of Springfield, Ohio, announced a small new Diesel...
...weeks ago, late one night, seven grimy miners toiled in the zinc-and spar-veined bowels of a mountain near Salem, Ky. With a surly roar, the wall of their tunnel collapsed behind them. Two men dashed for the shaft, shouting, "The cut's pullin', boys!" Another man, Roy James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through...
Mules Near the black mouth of the prison mine at Lansing, Kansas, a kindly warden stood conversing with his deputy, suddenly turned with tautened lips to watch the sullen file of oil-skinned prisoners shuffle down into the shaft. Defiant of 13 unarmed guards, a seared murderer, a slack-jawed pervert, another and another, turned to gaze with loathing at the man who held four of their number captives to be chastised like beasts for complaining at lack of sheets...