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...them were found in their car. The three prisoners had penitentiary records. They incriminated two others. Police revealed that the men, suspected of staging three other similar raids since last spring, were tossing their loot away because an inaccurate test had led them to believe it was brass. Workmen began dredging the East River's 60-ft. channel for 26 bars of precious metal...
Seven seconds, which seemed like an eternity, was the actual launching time. Enormous chains slowed the Normandie lest she slide too far and crash into a cement wall at the other end of her basin. She did not crash. St. Nazaire went wild with joy. St. Nazaire workmen will be busy for another 18 months installing the innards of the Normandie...
...largest theatre in the world, the International Music Hall of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, workmen with buckets of white lead were busy last week pasting up the world's largest mural painting, a curved 60-by-40-ft. canvas by Ezra Winter, showing an old man gazing thoughtfully from a cliff at a procession of winged horses and muscular nudes swooping up into the sky. This picture is called "The Fountain of Youth." Workmen have also just set up, in the ladies' room of Rockefeller Center's 3,500-seat cinema theatre, an illuminated colored glass...
...mahagony handle-made from furnishings in the old court chamber-President Hoover dabbed a butter pat of mortar on stone. Chief Justice Hughes heaped the trowel full. Mr. Thompson did likewise. Then a master mason scraped off their dabs, spread a skilful smear of his own while four workmen gently swung into place a three-and-one-half-ton block of Vermont marble inscribed "A. D. 1932." Within the cornerstone Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose late husband as Chief Justice was, more than any other man, personally responsible for the new building, had placed a lead box containing ceramic photographs...
Cleaning 9 ft. steel tube that winds across California carrying water into Los Angeles, workmen came to the wilderness at Grapevine Canyon 150 mi. north of Los Angeles where the tube pitches down 900 ft. Inside the pipe 16 workmen went to work scraping muck from the slimy walls, lit by a string of electric lights. One man slipped, slid, clutched at the man beneath, broke the light cord. Shouting and clawing, the two men pitched down the steel tunnel 900 ft. into dark and muck, carrying 14 other shouting, clawing men with them in one big bundle. All were...