Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without warning also went about 1,000 other Corporation of London workers-market and street cleaners, rubbish collectors, gravediggers. At 7 o'clock one evening the twin bascules* of Tower Bridge went up, but not because a Thames ship tooted for passage through. The 70 men who operate the drawbridge in shifts had also joined the wildcat sympathy strike over George Turner's three hooks...
...first major U.S. airline crash in 14 weeks, and Delta's first since 1935. What accounted for it? The reason was shockingly obvious: the Muscogee County Airport, like some 300 other U.S. airports regularly used by commercial aircraft, has no control tower to regulate landings. The Civil Aeronautics Administration has barely enough funds to operate towers at 117 of the nation's larger airports (minimum annual cost: $15,000 each). The Georgia crash might help get additional funds from Congress to operate more...
...shouldered giant with a monkish, curiously luminous face under a mop of dark hair, his brilliant false teeth glittering as he speaks, he lacks his colleagues' intellectual sparkle; but he tops them in dogged organizing genius. Secchia has himself stated his objective: "A Communist section for every church tower in Italy...
...Viva Gli Zulu!" Last June, bonfires in Anticoli's square and the Red Flag fluttering from Roviano's tower heralded the election victory of the Socialist-Communist bloc over landowners and shopkeepers. The Christian Democrats virtually threw the election away when their provincial leader, coming to a rally of the local party, swung into Roviano driving a long, sleek Alfa Romeo. Roviano's children, squealing with delight, climbed all over the strange vehicle, but the citizenry hooted its driver out of town. In Anticoli, a pretty young girl who was chief Communist organizer practically swung the election...
...Students have come to look upon the hall as a den of horror, where they suffer either from the crush of registration or the torture of exams. Only rarely are the riotous days of the past recalled. Mem most recently shuddered from the sedate heights of its 170 foot tower down to the base of its firm foundation when Sally Rand lectured to a Freshman Smoker in 1941 on the subject "What the Average College Stage Door Johnny Is Looking for When He Stage Door Jennies a Burlesque House Stage Door...