Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's flag will probably be the Red Ensign.* Usage has made it the Dominion's unofficial flag; it was flown from the Parliament Building's Peace Tower on V-E and V-J day. And if Mr. King has his way (which is almost certain in a House of Commons consisting of 126 Liberals against 119 members in opposition), soon Canadians would no longer have to identify themselves in legal matters as British subjects; they would be simply Canadians...
...super-modernistic Presbyterian Chapel in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains at Delaware Water Gap, to be equipped with movable seats and altars, whose arrangement will depend "upon the time of day, the position of the sun and the purpose of the meeting." The tower will contain a water tank...
...profit-fat Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; 2) through the Alleghany Corp., the controlling interest in three other roads which sprawl across the U.S. heartland-the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate), the Pere Marquette, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie (see map). Last week, in Cleveland's Terminal Tower, the C & O's board of directors voted to merge all four railroads, make them one operating company...
...Finish. Thunder & lightning rumbled and flashed in the early morning of July 16 when the final test was to be made. The bomb was carefully mounted on a steel tower hung with instruments to record the effects of the explosion...
...where the steel tower stood, there was only a crater. The tower had completely vaporized...