Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans. Under its weight the bridge went slithering, the locomotive sank in muddy ooze, its crew killed. Thirteen travelers were injured. Later in the week, rains washed out a switch near Tucumcari, New Mex., plunging seven cars of Rock Island's Golden State Limited into a swollen stream, killing six passengers, injuring some...
...where hypnotized fishermen sit over their long bamboo poles. For nearly a day last week no barges reached the Paris quays from either Seine or Oise. Fifteen miles down the river where Seine meets Oise at the village of Conflans-Ste-Honorine, the barges were tied straight across the stream. Bargemen spat in the water and waited...
From the shoddy throngs that follow the horses, a steady stream of dollars flowed in the direction of Mr. Annenberg's tipster enterprises. He branched into banking, brokerage, real estate. Only he knows the full range of his interests, and Moe Annenberg does not talk about himself. He does not even like to have it said that he has made millions, but today, father of eight children (seven of them daughters, all married), he owns a ranch in Wyoming, "the show place of the Black Hills," from which like Hearst at San Simeon he rules a far-flung empire...
Infrequently of late has Spain, which used to dispatch musicians to the U. S. in a steady stream, sent figures worthy to rank with Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Dancer Argentina, Pianist José Iturbi. As though to atone for this neglect, alert little Pianist Iturbi, who plans to become a U. S. citizen, has lately carved a niche for himself as an orchestral conductor as well. His quiet debut occurred last May in Mexico City, speedily became a triumph. Emboldened by the success of his first piano recitals in Mexico, Iturbi organized an orchestra of 75 "professors," inserted a small advertisement...
...Denverites the 41-year-old Castlewood Dam, 30 mi. back in the hills above the city, has been a blessing and a menace. It provided a huge irrigation reservoir three miles square. It checked the occasional rampages of Cherry Creek, the historic stream which sluices between concrete embankments through the heart of the city to empty into the South Platte. Ever since the dam was pronounced unsafe by engineers, Denver has feared that its walls might one day crumble and a torrent of water go racing down Cherry Creek into the city. Not long ago the dam sprang a leak...