... needed in the city of New York, a General Alarm can in five minutes be sent by the police wires over its whole vast area of three hundred square miles. When, recently, a gas main broke in Brooklyn, sixty girls were at once called to the centrals in that part of the city to warn the ten thousand families who had been placed in danger. When the ill-fated General Slocum caught fire, ... — The History of the Telephone • Herbert N. Casson
...gas main, allowing the gas to penetrate the soil, will destroy trees, shrubbery, or any other vegetation with ... — The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) • Various
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