Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Gustav Lindenthal, 85, famed U. S. bridge builder; after long illness; in Metuchen, N. J. Builder of the Hell Gate. Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges, Austrian-born Engineer Lindenthal's fondest dream was never fulfilled: a giant span across the Hudson River at 57th Street, opposed by the War Department for reasons of wartime navigation. Also built by Engineer Lindenthal were Pennsylvania R. R.'s Hudson and East River tunnels...
...tools." Then seeing the strike pickets idle, he bought baseballs, gloves, bats so that they could play ball in a vacant lot. For those who did not play ball he rented a nearby bowling alley. Meanwhile the strikers got out White brooms, White rubbish cans, kept the sidewalks spick & span...
...Romance Returns to the Railroads," showing a beauteous girl, spick & span in spotless white dress, lounging happily in an air-conditioned car. (". . . Like taking a luxurious overland cruise...
...Andrew Jackson similarly held the hands of a Mrs. Overton of Nashville while Dr. McDowell cut through four inches of abdominal tissues to remove her diseased ovaries. Dr. McDowell asked $500, got $1,500 and an "elegant carriage" with a span of Kentucky-blooded horses and two slaves, largest fee on record up to 1822. There is no public record of who held the hands of James K. Polk when Dr. McDowell repaired a rupture and removed a stone from the future President's bladder...
...last week made his gloomy statement concerning the inevitable doom of every other child who contracts rheumatic fever. Said Dr. Cohn further, and more hopefully: "If we can . . . have 3,000 more case records in another ten years ... we may find some way of giving these children a normal span of life on earth...