Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tower cost $600,000, but, said Crowe, "it was a half-million dollars cheaper than any scheme anybody else thought of." Shasta also used the world's longest conveyor belt (ten and a half miles) to carry gravel and sand to the damsite. The two bold innovations have drawn international engineering attention...
...song fashion, she loses much of their meaning and the chance to capitalize on many potential laughs. Of the supporting cast, Richard Hart in the role of the Unknown Gentleman, gives a very satisfactory performance. As the season progresses, a great deal can be expected from Lee Nugent, Allan Tower and Kathryn Cameron, all of whom showed promise last evening. Robert Perry, in the role of His Excellency added a professional touch to the evening's proceedings...
...official residence of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales. The old brick palace suffered mainly from blast. All its stained glass on the north side was blown in, along with the great mullioned windows of the Chapel Royal. The clock face in the north side of the tower, a London landmark, was blown away...
...WAVES have already taken over many shore jobs for the Navy. They dole out pills with a big smile in the Naval hospitals, take over desks all over America to let their male shipmates go to sea. The WAVES run control tower, pack parachutes, service planes, run ship stores, keep pay accounts and in general make themselves useful...
Sterling and his technicians from the Department of Commerce had the peacetime experience of tracking down radio-using rum runners, smugglers, gamblers, practical jokers. Their prime weapon was the Adcock Direction Finder (built and perfected by Sterling and his men), which has a long antenna on a 40-ft. tower and gives the approximate point of origin of any radio signal. RID now has 30-odd Adcocks in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...