Word: smokestack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like a village of criss-crossed highways, farm buildings, fields and forests. Easiest to camouflage, says Mr. Stafford, is a flat-roofed building in wooded countryside, over which a continuation of the woods may be painted; hardest is a tall building by a river, especially one with a big smokestack. Impossible to make look like something else are the Gothic-towered Houses of Parliament...
...compelled not only efficiency at Great Lakes ports but economy in Great Lakes ship design. Distinctive Lakes craft, introduced in 1906, is the standard 600-ft. bulk freighter, which resembles nothing so much as a huge steam barge with a minimum of upper-works fore & aft, engines and smokestack so far aft as to seem astern...
High in the gusty November sky, painting the top of the 165-ft. smokestack of the Wagner Brewery at Granite City, Ill., Steeplejack Bert Bareiter looked down and saw that the wind had fouled his hoist rope around a guy wire 60 ft. below. He climbed down hand over hand to untangle the rope. At this point occurred a horrifying industrial accident, followed by a notable act of industrial heroism...
Having thus satisfied their curiosity, the correspondents explored the comfortable Potomac, discovered a small elevator concealed in the smokestack. This device was installed on short order by Sedgwick Machine Works of Poughkeepsie so that the President can go below decks if he wishes. Then the press flew back to Miami taking with them Uncle Frederick A. Delano and leaving the President to voyage to the fishing grounds recommended by Sir Bede...
...mills made 65% of the towels in the U. S. It might therefore have seemed that a wedding between Anne Cannon, daughter of the oldest of old James Cannon's lively sons, and young Zachary Smith Reynolds, would be an ideal alliance, satisfying the prudence and propriety of smokestack royalty as gracefully as it embellished the legend of Southern romance. Such was not the case. The wedding of Anne Cannon and Smith Reynolds was celebrated at midnight in York, S. C. There were no witnesses except the bride's father and a policeman...