Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cunard-White Star Line officers must do on reaching 60, Captain John W. Binks of the S. S. Olympic prepared last week to quit the sea after 45 years in steam & sail. Memorable indeed was the last westbound trip of the Olympic's florid, stocky skipper from Southampton to New York. Over the North Atlantic raged a winter's storm that brought many a vessel distress, twice sent the barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take...
Working furiously against the approaching winter's cold, the Maintenance Department has almost completed the installation of a steam-heat system for the gutter of Wigglesworth Hall. A long copper tube, running the length of the drain, will abolish once and for all the danger of falling icicles...
...idea was put into effect as a result of injuries and near injuries which kept the residents of Wigglesworth in a state of continuous terror last winter. The steam outlets have been made through the roof by removing the slate, drilling until steam was struck in the maze of attic pipes, connecting the copper tube, and covering the hole in the roof again...
...purely political standpoint, the Democratic party had become a going concern of tremendous proportions. Its machines in the North had been given new power (see p. 13) and the long disused national machinery, lubricated with Federal patronage and supercharged with fuel from the Federal treasury, had got up enough steam so that, barring major misfortunes, it was certain to go thundering down the tracks of history for many a good year to come...
Still under a full head of steam, Huey Long next announced that he was going to call another special session of the Legislature, empower the Public Service Commission to declare a moratorium on all debts within the State for two years...