Word: underground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UNDERGROUND NEWS-Robert M. McBride...
Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground...
...giant version of the pneumatic cash carrier system familiar to most department store customers, the 8-inch tubes of the underground mail service resemble gas mains, the containers that glide through them at 30 m. p. h. are about the size of fire extinguishers. As there is no switching, every carrier pops out at each station, is retained or passed on according to its destination mark. Motive power in the tube is a current of air blown into the system from powerhouses en route. Each 120-lb. steel container holds up to 500 letters. Every day the system efficiently carries...
North and west of Pocatello, Idaho, U. S. highway 30 N enters the Snake River Valley, a wild region of fantastic rock formations, ghost towns, ice caverns, dinosaur fields, waterfalls, hot springs, reclamation projects, historic legends, lava beds. In some places, because of the underground rivers, "a person can put his ear to the ground and hear deep and troubled rumblings as if a mighty ocean rolled far under." Thirty-eight miles from Pocatello a three-mile side road leads to Emigrant Rock, where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another...
...Yale got some good players of its own. The first year Yale beat Harvard 13-0 in spite of the soggy underground which held back Mal Stevens and other fleet-footed Yale backs. But Ducky Pond just loved it. He sloshed through for 67 yards and touchdown, Yale's first touchdown in the Stadium since the afore-mentioned magic year...