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Word: watermains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denied that the water supply of Havana was "all but cut off" by the explosion of a dynamite bomb near the public aqueduct. Potent, the explosion tore a four-foot hole in a watermain, injured four passersby, whooshed an 18-lb. piece of masonry over a block and a half of houses. All day long a 15-ft. fountain spouted from the hole, but Secretary of Public Works Lombillo Clark said he would soon have that fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's Afraid? | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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