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...Chinese Government (which published it as damaging to Japan) nor the Japanese Government doubted last week. Both publicly accepted it as authentic. But the Soviet Government after a four-day interval called the telegram false, the work of Japanese agents. This charge Moscow seemed to be making to spike rumors that what General Ma had actually done was to join forces with Russia, accept fat Soviet bribes...
With the exception of a wind vane which will be six feet tall, the spire of the New Memorial Chapel has reached its greatest height with the erection of the pipe spike, raised to position Saturday. The spire already rises higher than any other building on the Cambridge horizon, surpassing the battlements of Memorial Hall by five feet...
...spike is an almost solid tapering pole weighting eight and one half tons. It is used principally to strengthen and make the spire secure. In three sections the pole was lifted through the framework, screwed together and temporarily clamped. The appearance of a slight lean is due to the fact that it has not yet been secured in the ceiling of the rectangular room housing the old bell, now ringing from Harvard Hall. Bolts, cables, and cement will be used to fasten the pole within the framework beginning today. Contrary to current suppositions, it is not a lightning arrestor, although...
...railroad president or his worried banker but the man who is reputed to own more railroad securities than anyone else: bush-bearded Arthur Curtiss James. Last week, however, Investor James cast worry from his mind, entered the festive spirit that surrounds an oldtime tradition?the driving- of-the-golden-spike.* With a few blows he drove the spike into a specially-prepared tie. linked his pet road, the Western Pacific, to the Great Northern system...
...notable exception occurred in 1885 when the builders of the Canadian Pacific decided that a golden spike would be absurd after the vyay they had worked to save money, that a good iron spike for the last would do as well as one did for the first...