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...Gerard Lambert, all members of the owning syndicate. Jane Nichols, small granddaughter of Mr. Morgan, had been told to swing the bottle hard, and did, but the Weetamoe stuck. She had been built on the ways and the wood had soaked up some of the grease. For two hours workmen in the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, R. I. hammered, sawed, used jacks. Still the Weetamoe stuck. A squall was coming up, the sun was going down. Workers and christeners went home, deferred the launching for two days. Finally afloat, the Weetamoe looked like a long-necked bird. Her line...
...thicket near Brentwood, L. I., workmen discovered a skeleton, identified it by a repeater watch as that of Henry Lot Norton, onetime waterworks official of Jamaica, who disappeared eight years ago, died of exposure in a thunder storm...
...corner of Boylston Street and Memorial Drive, has been taken down, and on that site a workman's shanty is being built, preparatory to the actual construction of House Unit 3 which is to begin in the near future. Inside the plant the machinery has disappeared, and workmen are busy tearing down the walls of the Plant itself...
...taken a little more than two days for workmen of the American Wrecking Company to level to their foundations the wooden frame buildings just in the rear of McKinlock Hall on the site of the new addition...
Today the U. S. has but 80,000 tons ol such cruisers, of which only 20,000 tons, or. two cruisers, are in commission. At the prospect of building 100,000 more tons, that is, of more than doubling the U. S. large cruiser fleet, honest workmen rejoiced in shipyard cities throughout...