Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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According to an operator working in the central car of the crane, there is 3000 tons of metal to be removed from the building, an amount which is worth $60,000. The metal taken from the plant is sent partly to Pittsburg and partly to France, under a contract with the French that calls for a million tons of metal. In demolishing the massive power plant machines, weighing 500 tons each, the cylinders are removed first, being toppled over by the crane after the bolts have been burnt away. Once during the operation, a piece weighing 22 tons had been...
...than it take the N. Y., N. H. & H.'s other crack Boston-New York trains, the Merchants and the Knickerbocker. More expensive by $1.30 than either of these two, a ride on the Yankee Clipper costs $12.26. The train, all Pullman, is in two sections of seven cars, each named after a famed oldtime clipper ship. To suggest the sea, car interiors are blue-green. Windows open like windows in limousines, are said by the company not to stick. One Grace Harriet McKay, great-granddaughter of Clipper Ship Builder Donald McKay, christened the train in Manhattan...
...blue-eyed Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 60, lives in a ten-room Spanish mansion, No. 4440 Braeburn Road. San Diego, Calif. Last week he deeded No. 4440 Braeburn Road, an adjacent two-car garage and a pair of automobiles to King David, Gedeon, Barak, Samson. Jephthae, Samuel and sundry other mighties of ancient Palestine. Positive is he that they are shortly to reappear on earth. Said he: "I have purposely landscaped the place with palm and olive trees so these princes of the universe will feel at home when they come to offer man the chance to become perfect...
...time she was dressed and had eaten supper, telegrams began arriving from Seattle. The Chamber of Commerce wanted to know when she was coming home. Great plans had been made-a band, a banquet, a car with flowers & flags and room beside Helene for her father. Charles William Madison, honest Seattle cleaner-and-dyer. Obscure Seattlites got into print by telling how she learned to do the dog-paddle in Green Lake...
...Pittsburgh, police found Henry Mulholland drunk and singing in the cab of a derailed trolley car which he had stolen, in which he had been driving himself about the city...