Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd booed Ford's name. Before the week was out it looked as if shrewd Mr. Ford were launching a planned counterattack on C. I. O. He allowed himself to be photographed repeatedly in all sorts of homely poses, talking to children, showing them how a steam engine works, confabbing with a one-legged Negro (see cut). He continued giving interviews picturing himself in the same homely light...
...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...
Married. Mrs. Clara Louise Saltmarsh Westinghouse, widow of Board Chairman Henry Herman Westinghouse of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. who invented the single-action steam engine and whose Brother George invented the air brake; and John Franklin Miller, 78, Westinghouse vice chairman; at Bradenton...
Despite the creaking and groaning noise heard yesterday as the Undergraduate Athletic Council got up steam, the average student is not impressed. It is true that the deliberations seem to promise that one minor sport, basketball, will enter the major orbit and that the new monthly meetings will put more undergraduate pressure on Quincy Street. Yet the underlying troubles in the current system are untouched...
...Coal dealers would be obliged to "wash" small-sized coal and hand-pick chunks to prevent sulphuric acid and other products of burning sulphur from getting into the atmosphere. Locomotives would be permitted to belch smoke in St. Louis only for six minutes in any hour while getting up steam in a roundhouse, only one minute while on open tracks...