Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wyatt order places the building industry under stricter supervision than it had in wartime. It means considerable hardship for contractors who are not experienced at handling small jobs, and for steam-shovel operators, steelworkers and other workmen who cannot readily convert to housebuilding...
...political machine, slandering other N.M.U. officers (including Curran), refusing to report their activities and making individual decisions that did not fit with union policy. He suggested that all three get the hell out of office. N.M.U. members clapped loudly, but took no action beyond urging everybody to save their steam for the shipowners...
...Manhattan last week, apartment hunters followed a newspaper ad which offered 2½-room cooperative apartments in a "new development" with "elevator, steam heat, Frigidaires." The trail led to a grimy old six-story tenement with an assessed value of $15,000, in a run-down neighborhood off First Avenue. The modern apartments existed only on a set of architect's plans, the building was not open for inspection, the work of remodeling had not yet started. But the owner easily sold 14 apartments for $3,500 each, and the monthly carrying charges were far above rents prevailing...
...tortured little patch of dismal grey rock some 235 miles south of Tokyo. For at least four weeks-since it was first sighted by the crew of a British destroyer-the islet, a product of submarine volcanic eruption, has been boiling the sea into clouds of sulphurous steam, belching great blasts of smoke and roiling the muddy bottom for miles around...
...frothing sea 235 miles south of Tokyo Bay, agitated by hot lava and fuming with sulfurous steam, spewed out a new 10-acre volcanic island which most likely will soon sink slowly back into the sea. One Japanese scientist suggested a name: "MacArthur Island." "It is most spectacular, it is creating great excitement, but in another year or two it will be gone...