Word: underground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almost roof-high and room-long in the Mines, Metals and Machinery Building stretches Treasure Mountain, showing open-pit mine operations aboveground, gold and copper mining along 500 feet of underground passageways. Good also: U. S. Steel's diorama of a steel-built San Francisco of 1999; a 555-lb. piano hanging from a thin steel thread...
German aircraft plants are, unlike the British, well-camouflaged, frequently set down in evergreen forests. Duplicate facilties for German plane manufacture exist underground. When a bombing attack threatens, movable machinery from the surface plants can be lowered by elevator into the underground and hooked up to duplicate heavy machinery that is already in place...
Still plugging their once-sensational theory that economics makes history what it is, the Beards explore the underground economic forces that brought about Coolidge prosperity. With the aloof amusement of two moralists who stayed sober while the rest of the world got tight, they investigate the causes of the crash, the closing of the banks, the New Deal and government by Brain Trust...
Such a program of attack on "symptoms" would be effective to a large extent, and would at the very least drive illegitimate schools underground. Once the commercialization of tutoring was climinated, the demand now created by high pressure tactics would be gone. It makes little difference whether or not tutoring is really advantageous to the student. Regardless of how useless a review--consisting of oversimplified digests of lecture notes--may be, persuasive advertisements make him imagine that actual benefit can be had. This situation would exist even under a system of perfect examinations. In printing an advertisement of a parker...
Five thousand years ago the Sumerian rulers of Mesopotamia were buried, in big underground chambers, with multitudes of sacrificed servants. The skull and face forms of these old Near Easterners are almost identical with those of living Englishmen. Ancient Egyptian skulls resemble those in 17th-Century London plague pits, in New Stone Age box graves of Switzerland. Science has had much to puzzle over in these resemblances, and many others in the intricately shuffled complex of races, sub-races, types and varieties in Europe's white population...