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South of the Slot were the factories, slums, laundries, machine-shops, boiler works, and the abodes of the working class.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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The millions of soldiers and sailors and workmen in the standing armies, in the navies, and in the countless arsenals, machine-shops, and factories for the manufacture of war machinery, were dismissed to their homes.
Goliah 2010
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South of the Slot were the factories, slums, laundries, machine-shops, boiler works, and the abodes of the working class.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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North of this "slot" were the banks, theaters, hotels, the shopping district and business houses; south of it lay factories, slums, laundries, machine-shops, boiler works and the "abodes of the working class."
“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008
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The machinery is made by Pusey, J.nes & Co., whose iron ships and machine-shops we have already examined: the rolls of admirable accuracy are from the shops of J. Morton Poole & Co.
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In two weeks I was convalescent, and yet I daily exhausted my returning strength by gaining a knowledge of the Nashville founderies, machine-shops, bridges, capitol, industry, and whatever
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He's been to all the machine-shops, but they won't take him: they say he has too long a tongue for them, though he's as sober and steady a man as lives, and there ain't a better workman in M----, or D---- either.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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If ever a contest shall arise among great commercial powers, it will be seen that modern science has made new conditions, and that the first inexorable demand of modern warfare is coal depots, and docks and machine-shops, established in ports easy of access, and protected by natural and artificial strength, and scattered at easy distances all over the commercial world.
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The students of geology and mining, of machinery and metallurgy, make, with their professors, frequent visits to the many interesting localities in Pennsylvania or New-Jersey, to the many large machine-shops with which Philadelphia abounds, visit mines and furnaces, and are in every way practically familiarized with their future callings.
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Hangars, machine-shops, supply depots suffered the same fate; a good third of the establishment became a smoking, smouldering heap of junk.
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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