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- Like I said --
- Possibly an actress
- Her expression speaks volumes.
- Naughty bits
- Leaving as winners
- Rather a severe looking group
- The finer points of progress
- Before minivans
- Don't make me
- A Life Upon the Wicked Stage
- Not exactly I-95
- Another meaning
- Prime-ordial Real Estate
- Chesterfield Man
- +82
- One of those signs
- Fast-forward to today
- Harvest bounty
- The third pump
- For 27 Years, The Symbol of Savings
- A third pump?
- Pretty Sure
- No car ID?
- Feminine Company.
- Even older, now.
- Mutual, I'm sure
- Still around!
- Looking for a date?
- Rails Run Through It
- Chero-Cola
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Mr. Biggs: 1936
Oct. 15, 1936. Washington, D.C. "Protection against that dreaded disease Silicosis is assured underground workers with this new sand-blasting helmet developed by William P. Biggs, Safety Engineer of the Navy Department. Weighing only 43 ounces, the helmet has been tested for nearly a year in various naval stations throughout the country." Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
Fill the pointy thing with sand
point it at the workpiece, and sneeze.
Hefty
30 minutes of work and 45 minutes of resting and cold ice packs. Yikes!
Is that all?
"Only" 43 ounces! Nearly 2 pounds of visual obstruction...
[Yeah, he should have calculated things better. -tterrace]
LOL! I meant to type "3 pounds".
Never caught it...
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