If one saw only the Rheims benches, one would scarcely prefer the slopers to horizontal retorts with good stoking machinery ; as for instance the Ross stoker at the Cincinnati gas works.
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If one saw only the Rheims benches, one would scarcely prefer the slopers to horizontal retorts with good stoking machinery ; as for instance the Ross stoker at the Cincinnati gas works.
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Yeah, that new pair of half-slopers really works — a lot better than the old inverted-V they're made from, ha ha!
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The wages of slopers, so far as they have been found designated as such on the pay rolls, are given in Table 63.
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In this work he displayed an energy and courage that not only disgusted the slopers, but likewise astonished the police authorities.
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