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...cost that already rose close to $200,000.000. But the Army insisted on 200 ft. clearance to accommodate the masts of the Leviathan, Majestic, Olympic, Bremen and Berengaria, which otherwise could not get above 57th Street. The Bridge company pointed out that 135 ft. was the highest liner stack, offered to put collapsible masts on vessels that could not get under their span. The Army's decision was a victory for the Fifth Avenue Association and other civic groups who argued that the congested midtown district could not absorb new traffic from the bridge...
...sent half a hundred Prohibition agents under Col. George Seavers of San Francisco swooping down upon Las Vegas. Twenty-five night clubs, saloons and roadhouses were raided. Lakes of liquor were seized, five breweries put out of commission. Fire threatened the business district when enthusiastic agents ignited a great stack of mash barrels. Arrested were 80 bootleggers, bartenders, speakeasy proprietors, girl entertainers. After a twelve-hour "clean-up," Las Vegas was reported to be as Dry as the surrounding sagebrush. Declared Col. Seavers...
...November success of Chimney Sitter Tanabe, determined to emulate him. However, not a single striking dyer could be found who would volunteer to sit on the Weaving Works high chimney. This difficulty was solved when a sympathetic, bespectacled young man from the Amalgamated Printers' Union swarmed up the stack, sat on the chimney as proxy. The 200 weavers and dyers immediately locked themselves in a warehouse, went on a hunger strike...
...hours the weavers in the barn modified their hunger strike, announced that they would eat bean soup, but nothing else. Cauldrons of bean soup were rushed to their aid. A reporter of the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun scaled the chimney sitter's stack, asked his name. This the sitting printer refused to give. Said he, his spectacles flashing in the setting...
...machine, ready for sale last week, is an endless conveyor set on end. The motorist runs his car into a cage. Gates shut and electricity raises the cage notch by notch until another cage reaches the street level. The present parker holds 24 cars in a double stack reaching, with motors and hoisting wheels, 100 ft. high. Ground space is 16 x 24 ft., approximately the size of a double garage...