Word: waterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week took steps to improve co-operation on public projects between states and the federal government. He picked his own California as the first beneficiary, prepared to appoint commissions to study its water control problems, to urge the need for a gigantic bridge over San Francisco harbor...
Facts of the record which railroad men scrutinized: coal consumption, 975 tons; water consumption, 1,500,000 gal.; gross ton mileage, 13,780,749; cars hauled, 555; average day's run, 320 mi. On its last run into Kansas City, No. 4113, pulling perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface...
...Treasury Lowman announced that eight new 75-ft. cutters, 16 smaller patrol boats, were being sent into the Great Lakes to combat rum-smuggling, raising U. S. vessels there to 100. At the same time it was stated that machine guns would be dismounted from smaller craft, in shoal water near the Canadian shore, promiscuous shooting bring international complications. Last week rum runners slipped through the Detroit blockade in broad daylight, landed their cargoes when a patrol boat left its post for gasoline...
...Flapper she began to get offers from West Coast producers. Now wife of Irving Thalberg, production manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she lives in one of the biggest houses in Hollywood. She yearly wins the Hollywood women's tennis championship, weekly or oftener takes a bath in starched water to preserve her beauty. Once she danced with the Prince of Wales and won a diving contest staged for him. Once she won a medal by holding a smile longer than other competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults...
...Mercury was used on the Severn barge last week for her first flying tests. Mrs. Williams was adjusting the parachute while mechanics were trying to start the plane's huge motor. Suddenly the plane slipped into the water. She was not damaged. But trials were postponed. Next day Lieutenant Williams taxied down the river. She made 110 m. p. h. and started to lift from the water. Another 100 ft. and she would have been in the air. That was a fact upon which he had calculated. But at that speed the twist of the motor forced one wing...