Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finnish Kalevala. When tourists came to the land of 1,000 lakes, the co-op restaurants in Helsinki served stuffed cabbage, onions and great slices of roast beef. In the summer young people danced on the hilltops under the moon. In the winter they leaped from steam baths into snowbanks and shouted that life was good. They ate wild strawberries and boasted of their glass works, their great forests and their splendid modern buildings...
...Marshfield, Ore., gaffers watched incredulously as a woman maneuvered a State Highway Commission steam roller down the main street...
...Milwaukee, he watched steam turbines and propeller shafts spring to life at the Allis-Chalmers plant. Once his car stopped only six feet from three girls in coveralls; their hands shook so that they could not go on working...
Last week, just ten days after its keel was laid, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger smashed a bottle of California champagne on the nose of the Joseph N. Teal (named after an Oregon industrial pioneer), sent it down the ways 87% complete, with steam in its boilers. Three days, 23 hours, 30 minutes later the Joe Teal, fitted out, was delivered. Son Edgar had served notice that anyone who meant to take a record from him would have to hump, meaning hump...
...acre Higgins Liberty Shipyard outside New Orleans. Amid a burst of fanfare, it was started six months ago as a gigantic project to build cargo ships on a water-borne assembly line. Two months ago the vast yard teemed with 7,000 workmen, scores of pile drivers, steam shovels, drag lines, floodlights. Over $10,000,000 was spent. Then suddenly came Maritime Commission orders: Close the yard. Official reason: the steel shortage...