Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed and unique is the network of subterranean mains which supply a score of factory towns in the German Ruhr with cheapest natural...
Taxation. The Governors compared their states' pocketbooks and methods of filling them. Louisiana's Long instructed his guests as to the virtues and efficacy of the severance tax-a sort of subterranean tax imposed to compensate for the removal of a state's irreplaceable natural resources (oil, illuminating...
...From the famed story by M. Gaston Leroux. The film, titillating, showed sepulchral subterranean passages under the Paris Opera House, a bal masque done in color, a great chandelier swinging, crashing...
Dark as the inside of an empty wine cask and reeking with the same stale smells is a certain evil subterranean cafe in Warsaw. Last week Polish detectives surrounded silently, peered down and into the place expectantly. They saw M. Aaron ("Diamond Jew") Rubenstein in strange traffic with some two score creatures whose air was furtive, smugglerous...
...afternoon last week, just as the night shift was going down to its subterranean duty, a convulsion shook the galleries, a blast of air rushed up the shafts followed by a belch of hot, black smoke. The night men scrambled back for safety. Some were killed in the tunnels by falling roofs. Some bratticed themselves in offsets and telephoned for help. Then came the deadly "afterdamp" (carbon monoxide...