Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past dozen years Swift & Co., largest U. S. meat packer, has bought up 20 small packing houses. Last week Swift bought out its 21st little competitor...
Died. Louis William ("Bridgie") Webber, 59, Manhattan gambler who turned State's evidence in 1912 to convict Manhattan Police Lieut. Charles Becker and four gunmen-"Lefty" Louis Rosenberg, Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago" Frank Cirofici-of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal; of peritonitis; on the 21st anniversary of Becker's electrocution; in Passaic, N. J., where for 22 years he had managed a paper-box factory...
...build his first real airplane at the plant of Aircrafter Glenn L. Martin. This week, 44-year-old Designer Douglas, now head of the world's greatest airplane factory, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., will journey to the White House to receive from President Roosevelt the 21st Collier Trophy, now the top U. S. air honor, awarded to him for his famed DC-2-"the outstanding twin-engined transport...
...afraid way out here in the country." Heads turned. A voice came back: "I understand they hunt deer up here between Rows J and K." The answer was cut short by a hammering sound, hollow and staccato, like a hatchet assaulting an orange crate: The 21st Republican National Convention was gaveled to order...
...21st.--Ope'd my eyes very betimes, but lay long a humming some Oriental tune, yet I know not where I got it; thence, soft sun in my face, to muse on this fine tribute to morning and how rich are its lines...