Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the strikers, accompanied by women and children, returned to the plant someone threw a stone. Smash went a window. From the pottery building the crowd moved steadily around to the Administration Building, breaking every window on the way. At that point the deputies sallied forth to break up the mob. Women and children fled before a wave of tear gas but the men returned to the attack. Again the deputies sallied forth. Rocks, bombs, clubs, shouts, curses made up the fray. Some deputies armed with shotguns fired on their attackers. After a two-hour struggle the strikers were driven...
...Mountain of Mahogany." The bedside telephone in Tiefenbrunn is linked by direct wire with a huge grey stone building on Unter den Linden in which tourists used to cash their letters of credit, dazzled by the splendiferous luxury of Germany's great Disconto Gesellschaft. The Government bought the building last year "as is" and it remained empty until last month. When the Ministry of Economics then moved in Dr. Schmitt exclaimed, "That mountain of mahogany is no desk for me! I want something smaller, with a big drawer for cigars...
...tour last week was Postmaster General Farley, but his month's swing to the Pacific and back was anything but a holiday. Nominally the PMG was inspecting post offices. Actually he was working day & night on that lowliest of labors, mending political fences, shaking hands with every loose stone, patting it back firmly into place...
...firm that the "sand hogs" never had to work under air pressure. In 1925 the chipping was started by Princess Mary with a pneumatic drill. Two pilot tunnels, each 12 ft. in diameter, were cut out from Liverpool and Birkenhead until in 1928 only a thin curtain of stone hung between them in mid stream. Out to chip this down and shake hands under the Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug chippers kept on, year after year, enlarging the 12-ft. rock tube to hold cast-iron tunnel sections...
Died. Carl Ludwig Weagant, 26, yachtsman, associate editor of Yachting; by his own hand (hanging); in Douglaston, L. I. In 1929 Mr. Weagant sailed a 46-ft. ketch from Ithaca, N. Y. to Ithaca, Greece, presented the Greeks with a stone from the Cornell campus engraved "Cornell Forever...