Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's atomic proving grounds on Eniwetok was lifted last week. Congressional members of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy were invited to fly out soon for new atomic tests. There were no further details. But knowing Hawaiians, who had watched the ships of Atomic Task Force Seven steam westward out of Pearl Harbor a month ago, guessed that initial phases of the tests might already be under...
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas have a highly experienced way with this sort of comedy, and Director H. C. Potter is so much at home with it that he gets additional laughs out of the predatory rustics and even out of the avid gestures of a steam shovel. Blandings may turn out to be too citified for small-town audiences, and incomprehensible abroad; but among those millions of Americans who have tried to feather a country nest with city greenbacks, it ought to hit the jackpot...
...other tunnels are planned for construction when the ground has thawed. A steam tunnel will run from Wigglesworth along Lamont and under Quincy Street to the Union. The other, starting in Lamont, will lead to Houghton...
Humbug & Hullabaloo. That was a far cry from the "Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome" which Barnum had christened the first Garden, an abandoned depot of the New York Central & Harlem River Steam Railroad at Madison Avenue. The Barnum spectacles and others went so well that in 1889, Garden Owner William H. Vanderbilt got together with Barnum, J. Pierpont Morgan, and other Manhattan tycoons, tore down the old building and built a new $3,000,000 one. On opening night, Edward Strauss played waltzes to the audience of "old dowagers, ancient bucks, fresh brides, dewy buds, young blades and sprigging braves...
...project itself has two sides. It calls for the creation of a 27-foot channel that will allow ocean-going vessels to steam from the Atlantic to any of the ports on the Great Lakes. The Seaway's second feature is a power-producing chain of dams on the St. Lawrence which would provide locks for navigation. As now conceived, the entire enterprise is estimated at $720,000,000, although opponents claim that expenses would run much higher...