Word: steam-shovel
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...Account. In Calgary, Alberta, steam-shovel operator Harry Gallelli, excavating a basement, uncovered a cache of several hundred U.S. silver dollars and 50^ pieces, rushed happily to a bank, learned they were all counterfeit...
...Wyatt order places the building industry under stricter supervision than it had in wartime. It means considerable hardship for contractors who are not experienced at handling small jobs, and for steam-shovel operators, steelworkers and other workmen who cannot readily convert to housebuilding...
...Denver, a driver of a dump truck crawled into his bin to keep warm. A steam-shovel operator buried him under a load of dirt. The bin was tipped to release him, and the dirt buried him again on the ground. Somebody then drove the truck over his legs, but the dirt protected him and he returned to work...
...schmaltz could have been dumped on with a steam-shovel, piled high and gooey. But it isn't. It's laid on gently with a medium-sized trowel. This admirable restraint makes "Knute Rockne, All-American" one of the better football pictures of the year, one of the better biographies...
...winters ago a needy wayfarer sought and received refuge at the Cistercian Monastery. He was William Devro, a steam-shovel operator from Providence. Devro did odd jobs for the monks, proved useful when it became necessary to enlarge the monastery's reservoir. At a small weekly stipend Devro was put in the cab of a steam crane, under the guidance of the community's civil engineer, Brother Hugh. One day a cable on the crane tore loose, struck Devro in the eye. The monks treated him in their infirmary, then sent him to a Providence hospital. He lost...