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...room" covered with 13 maps pegging population growth and political patterns in every parish. His precinct workers have assembled 600,000 IBM cards containing the name and address of every Louisiana urban voter, all of whom will be reached this month, either in person or from 50-telephone "boiler rooms," in order to determine their party, sex, age, occupation and race. That information, punched on the cards, will be riffled through just before the election to turn up the most likely Goldwater voters...
...first section of Tunnel was built in 1914, but it took years to construct the system that exists today. The line from Weld Hall in the Yard to Langdell Hall at the Law School, for example, was not completed until 1927. Before the Tunnel, each building had its own boiler to supply steam for heating radiator water and domestic water. Now, steam for almost the whole University comes from a single source...
...want to go full steam ahead until the old boiler bursts," says the Rev. E. Stanley Jones, whose fame overseas as an American evangelist is matched only by Billy Graham. Jones was formally retired by the Methodist Board of Missions in 1954, after 47 years of work -but retirement meant only that he was freed from all church assignments to set his own unflagging pace. In 1963, for example, he spent six months hopping from one missionary outpost to another in Asia and Latin America, filled 736 preaching engagements, spent his vacation writing his 24th book, a spiritual autobiography. Last...
...Downing, the Whitehall relic, four stories high, so depressed Melbourne that he refused to set foot in it. Haughty Margot Asquith called it "squalid," Lloyd George's wife would not move in until adequate plumbing was installed. During the blitz, Churchill complained that it was "shaky." One ancient boiler heated both Nos. 10 and 11, residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, leading then-Chancellor Rab Butler to complain that when Churchill set the thermostat in the 70s or 80s, he, Butler, was being "fried alive...
Chuca Choo, Chuca Choo. Several other railroad unions had the same kind of origin as the Firemen. Working on the railroad was a hazardous way of making a living in the 19th century. Many a fireman was scarred by a boiler explosion, many a yardman was mashed between cars. So often did brakemen fall from atop moving cars that one in three would be injured or killed in the course of a year. Understandably, insurance companies were reluctant to insure railroaders. In the railroad workers' need for insurance the first rail unions had their beginnings, as fraternal insurance societies...