Word: smokestack
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...bustle around Noah's Ark when the rains came. This Ark was a bulky, 175-ft. converted Navy patrol boat in the Oakland (Calif.) estuary. Last week she was abuzz with last-minute flurry. Women hung their clothes out to dry on a line running from mast to smokestack, crewmen tested ropes and slapped on final licks of paint, children swarmed everywhere, while men struggled to set up a wire screen at the ship's sides to keep them from falling overboard...
...track scooted two not-too-reasonable facsimiles of the Emett trains (rechristened "Far Tottering and Oyster Creek"), past weird scenery erected along the line: flat-footed cows, crooked lampposts hung with lobster pots. One train had a candy-striped engine with a balloon-shaped boiler and an elegant, winged smokestack; the other had spidery wheels, a teapot boiler and potted pink geraniums on top. Midgets dressed up as policemen were hired the first week to direct the delighted crowds which flocked about Britain's own Toonerville Trolley...
...tore houses apart, roared through a big lumber mill, knocked down a high smokestack, ripped bricks from a new power plant and sent chunks of concrete, heavy beams, sheets of corrugated iron and great showers of boards flying through the air for hundreds of yards...
These 125-foot, 6,000-horsepower, 4-8-8-2 wheel arrangement, single expansion articulated engines, distinctive of this railroad, have an enclosed cab that puts enginemen right up front so they can see more easily what's around a curve. Smokestack at other end from cab could give the illusion of backward operation to one not familiar with this type locomotive...
Reese went to work with a staff of efficiency engineers, reorganized the company from basement to smokestack. He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000. Soon bigtime customers like Sears, Roebuck, J. I. Case and Checker Cab came back into the fold. In 1940, sales rose 50% to $10,908,000 and the company earned $612,000 v. the preceding year's $215,000 deficit...