Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time was different. At 9:20 p.m., clouds over the 13,675-ft. peak parted to uncover a glow seen 200 miles away. Not from the crater, where it usually erupts, but out of the southwest flank of the mountain melted rock burst and shot 300 ft. up; steam shot higher to 20,000 ft., striking a passing plane. Through two other vents in the slope, streams of glowing lava oozed out, surged 25 miles...
...past on the way to seaside villages and resorts. Commuters on the Pennsylvania's gritty Jersey Shore line spend five minutes there every trip, buried in their newspapers or staring glumly at a shabby luncheonette across from a tavern while the electric engine is changed for a steam locomotive. Sprawled along the estuary of the Raritan River, just across the bay from the south tip of Staten Island, South Amboy exists as a kind of service entrance to the Port of New York, and it gets service-entrance traffic: coal, fertilizer from its own American Agricultural Chemical Co. (locally...
Expendable Resources. The timber industry had undergone a revolution: logging in 1950 would send an oldtime Wobbly or an oldtime "bull o' the woods" lurching off to consult an oculist-or a bartender. The steam donkey, the logging locomotive, the oldtime logging camp had all but faded out; Caterpillars crashed and thundered through the fir jungles, yanking new-cut logs along, and truck &. trailer rigs took them to the mill. Loggers still wore "tin" pants, calked boots and red hats, but they felled trees with power saws, lived in town, and rode into the woods on buses...
...railroad announced last night that would operate two observation trains which will move up and down the shore of the Thamen during all three of the races. Diesel locomotives will propel the trains instead of the steam-powered iron which showered spectators with and cinders in the pre-war days...
...foundations are now being completed in the excavation, which had lain untouched during the period of the hearings. Three laborers and two carpenters work on the project from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily, along with a steam shovel crew. The Niles Contractor Company of Newton is in charge of the construction. The church should be completed in nine months...