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...days of rain temporarily forced six workmen to give up hammering back the little white blocks which are falling off the Radcliffe library roof. "Last ear's ice caused rotted covings and gutter damage," said Dawson Blamore, superintendent of Radcliffe buildings and grounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Falling Blocks on Radcliffe Library Roof to Be Fixed | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

Protests from eight irate inhabitants of 20 Walker st. greeted workmen yesterday morning when they arrived to erect 28-inch-high window steps in each of the four third floor bedrooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Floor Girls Shun Steps, Rope As Fire Escapes | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

Chief William F. Jeff attributed the blaze to welding equipment stored in the basement since the afternoon. Workmen installing air-conditioning equipment had used several welding rods, he said, and inadequately disposed of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sprinklers Douse Fire at Widener | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

Houghton is already cool, Widener has no expectations, and Lamont is under construction. But to air-condition Lamont Library workmen are installing a water tower and several hundred feet of pipe in Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Keeps Cool, But Widener Will Fan Lamont | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

...airplanes in this formidable and exciting operation probably pack less coal into Berlin in one day than can be carried in one barge on the Rhine. It is painful to watch German workmen pour the small lumps into scales and weigh them out to the precise 110 pounds. To an American watching the airlift there is a sense of both degradation and satisfaction. But however momentary your anger at this unnatural and uneconomic thing, you get an abiding satisfaction that we are able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Carrying the Coal | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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