Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Pacific train last week chugged swiftly over the rails in the State of Nayarit, Mexico, belching steam and smoke into the night air and spewing fine cinders over the countryside. Sleeping soundly in comfortable Pullmans were eleven U. S. citizens on their way back...
Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in pits, caves, quarries, stream beds for vestiges of the creatures who roamed the earth before them, . .. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating a tooth, a bracelet, a, whole dead civilization. . . . Millions of dollars are spent in digging every year. Following are significant efforts and exhumations in the Americas during the past few months...
...subterranean pressure. But Dr. Hans Tropsch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany) gave hope that nature is still building oil stores, by another process. Germans have perfected processes of manufacturing synthetic fuel oils by heating carbon (bituminous coal, lignite) in a stream of steam or natural gas, in the presence of certain catalytics including iron. Germany's fuel-oil supply now seems assured as long as her coal lasts. Dr. Tropsch pointed out that natural gases collected from the crater of Mont Pelée were found to be mixed in proportions approximating those used...
Lloyd's Register of Shipping, published in London last week, showed that of the 2,840,545 tons of ships abuilding throughout the world on June 30, 1,459,595 tons were to be run by internal-combustion engines, 1,366,809 by steam engines. This was the first time ever that motorized tonnage had superseded steam.* Tonnage of ships under construction in various countries on June 30, 1927, and June 30, 1926, were...
...Paris, police agents found two old women living in great iron steam-boilers discarded by a factory. Each had a boiler-room 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, 4 ft. high, equipped with stove and, for shelving, boxes. Their food they got by diligent search of the public market garbage buckets. No wastrels, no disturbers of the public peace, the two old beldams were permitted to continue peacefully in their squalor...