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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one cold morning last week in Albany, N. Y. three employes of the Street Department rushed to Warren & Philip Streets to hunt a leak in the city's trunkline sewer. Expertly they flipped off the manhole lid. Ten feet below, icy black water, full of awful things, surged on to the Hudson. Once this sewer had been an open creek. When it was enclosed 35 years ago, engineers, according to the custom of the times, gave it great girth for a full current...
...eyes of the Japanese popped with disgust. Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...
Marriage Revealed, Elsie Janis Bierbower (Elsie Janis), 42, retired actress, mimic, "Sweetheart of the A.E.F."; and one Gilbert Wilson, 26; in Tarrytown, N. Y. For U. S. troops she gave 610 one-girl shows in France during the War. Said she: "Well, I've never had a child. Now I have a husband and?a child...
...York, N. Y., Jan 19--A book dealer, owning a shop on Fourth Avenue, and recently arrested in a police drive against a ring which stole rare books, estimated at a value of $40,000, from the Harvard College Library, was sentenced today to serve a prison term of not more than three years...
...test cars. The principle is to use the momentum of the car to check the speed. On the Stewart-Warner model this operates mechanically with a clutch attached to the brake pedal. Frederick I. Libby, young automotive engineer of Bronxville, N. Y. is working on a similar brake operated by hydraulic pressure...