Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth. But Chicago has gone into the bowels of the earth for another convenience that these other cities lack- freight subways. Last week a group of Chicagoans invaded Washington seeking capital from the R. F. C. to add to Chicago's tunnel traffic a new and livelier commodity: steam. Chicago's freight tunnels, which most Chicagoans live and die without ever seeing, have little likeness to the passenger subways of other cities. They lie not just beneath the street but 40 feet below the surface. Driven through clay (bed rock is several hundred feet below the surface...
Report had it that Chicago Tunnel Co. had bought a $700,000 site (at Randolph Street on the lake front) from the Illinois Central R. R., planned to build there a $7,000,000 steam plant. Messrs. Tracy and Mitchell rushed to Washington to negotiate with the R. F. C. for $4,000,000. If they get it, they plan to lay 24-in. steam pipes beside the tracks in their tunnel, sell steam to office buildings for heating, cooling systems...
Central station steam is no novelty in business. Already about 10% of Chicago's buildings are heated by steam sold by Illinois Maintenance Co. (an ex-Insull concern). Other cities have central steam systems. Largest is in Manhattan, served by New York Steam Co. which last year sold eleven billion pounds of steam. Problem for a new steam company in Chicago is to sell steam to the 90% of Loop buildings which now have individual heating plants...
...Southampton since Queen Victoria sailed in, nearly 50 years ago. On that occasion Victoria praised the plush carpet run out for her and the city fathers made the grievous social blunder of sending it to her as a souvenir. Last week a more tolerant sovereign was aboard the black steam yacht Victoria & Albert that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great...
...Boston market, its whistle going full blast all the way. Conductor D. L. Kent hurried up from the caboose, and still windows lighted, heads popped at every turn. Faster & faster went the 664-16, 17, 18 m.p.h. Her fireman shoveled as he never had before to keep up steam pressure, for the whistle was stuck fast. At last the OB 4 rolled into Boston and as drowsy stationmen clustered in wild surmise, Engineer Harry Brown climbed out, hammered shut his sticky whistle valve...