Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flower beds of Mayor Peng Chieh's spacious gardens were littered with bits of wood, plaster and broken glass. A man wrestled with a steam radiator, trying to get it on his shoulder. A coolie, stripped bare to the waist, grinned: 'I didn't like the mayor, anyway...
Swearing Off. To christen a new 4,000-h.p. diesel-electric locomotive in Cleveland last week, the Erie Railroad used, instead of champagne, a bottle of locomotive smoke. The Erie thus marked the complete conversion from steam to diesels on its Cleveland passenger runs...
...department are not limited to repair, however. The electrical division, for example, has just completed installing the new 15,000 volt transformers to carry the added load of the Physics Lab's cyclotron. But the most spectacular of the department's functions is the heating of Harvard buildings. Steam for over 180 buildings is brought from the Cambridge Electric Light Co. through two 19-inch pipes while a third one carries returning water. These pipes run through four miles of underground tunnels...
Network men and members of the maintenance department had to lay over a half mile of cable from Weld Hall to Conant through ducts and steam tunnels to bring the three dorms within range of WHRV...
...moving of the transmitter was a "truly epic operation," according to D. Benton Minnich '51, Network wire chief. Since only a steam trench connects Claverly to Apley Hall, it was not possible to lay the tape by hand through this stretch as is done in steam tunnels. Hence a pipe had to be jammed through the trench, and the tape forced through the pipe...