Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pittsburgh's downtown "Golden Triangle" was festooned with big, smoke-gushing boilers, supplying heat to office buildings. Motors chugged in the streets to turn power generators for lights. Railroad locomotives fed steam into three large, trackside buildings. Hundreds of businesses were still closed; about 50,000 people were still out of work...
...Time & again Washington tried to rally his ragged men, now in ragged ranks. Finally, riding a big white horse,*he exposed himself between the lines, inviting obedience -or death. For a moment the fate of the Continental Army hung in excruciating suspense. Each side fired a volley. When the smoke from the muskets lifted in the frosty air, Washington still bestrode his horse, unscathed. The Redcoats gave way. The victorious Americans carried their pursuit into Nassau Hall...
...Execution Night in Nürnberg, and in the spacious second-floor pressroom at the courthouse, the air was heavy with tension and tobacco smoke. Eight newsmen, chosen by lot, had gone to see the war criminals die. To kill time, the 60-odd correspondents who were left behind paced the floor restlessly, watched each other with guarded eyes, plotted how they might scoop the pool. The minutes and hours ticked by. Around the world, they knew, deadlines were coming & going, while editors stood impatiently over teletypes...
...Leigh got out of the Navy, outdoor advertising has boomed again. This year the industry will do a record $100 million worth of business, and Leigh, with signs in 19 cities, will gross over $2 million. His signs now blow real smoke rings, show coffee cups that exude real steam, and a giant box of Super Suds that spouts 5,000 large bubbles a minute. Forthcoming are a three-story soda pop ad in which full glasses will effervesce real balloons, some of which will contain tickets entitling the holder to a free drink, and a blimp-sized orange that...
...sere valley below, waves of sulphur rolled out every six hours, as a blast furnace belched. Black smoke poured from the stacks. A 300-ft.-high gas tank (big enough to supply Rio's daily gas consumption ten times over) loomed up by the long sheds that make up the rolling mill...